Perspectives on Aspect [Hardcover]

This book offers both a retrospective view on how theories of aspectuality have developed over the past 30 years, and presents current, new directions of aspectuality research.

The articles in this book take a wide crosslinguistic scope including aspectual analyses of the following languages: English and two varieties of English: African American English and Colloquial Singapore English, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, West-Greenlandic, Wakashan languages, and Nahk-Daghestanian languages.

The aim of this book is two-fold: to offer a retrospective view on the past thirty years of research on aspectuality and temporality as well as to develop new perspectives on the future development of the field. Articles contain overviews of the development of the field and/or present the state of the art of current research, suggesting new and upcoming lines of research. An important theme throughout the book is typological variation, and the relevance of empirical data for theory formation.

Together the articles in the book take a wide crosslinguistic scope including aspectual analyses of English, and two varieties of English: African American English and Colloquial Singapore English, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, West-Greenlandic, Wakashan languages, and Nakh-Daghestanian languages.

Audience: Scholars and students of aspectuality in semantics and at the syntax-semantics interface.

Preface Affiliations Angeliek VAN HOUT, Henri?tte DE SWART & Henk J. VERKUYL: Introducing perspectives on aspect. Henk J. VERKUYL: Aspectual composition: Surveying the ingredients. Rebecca SMOLLETT: Quantized direct objects dont delimit after all. Anne Marie DI SCIULLO & Roumyana SLABAKOVA: Quantification and aspect. Raffaella FOLLI & Gillian RAMCHAND: Prepositions and results in Italian and English: An analysis from event decomposition.lc)