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Perspectives on Aspect

  • 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 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 Nahk-Daghestanian languages

Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (SITP, volume 32)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introducing Perspectives on Aspect

    • Angeliek van Hout, Henriëtte de Swart, Henk J. Verkuyl
    Pages 1-17
  3. Quantification and Aspect

    • Anne Marie Di Sciullo, Roumyana Slabakova
    Pages 61-80
  4. On Accumulating and Having IT All

    • Hana Filip
    Pages 125-148
  5. Adverbs of Completion in an Event Semantics

    • Christopher Piñón
    Pages 149-166
  6. From Habituals to Futures

    • Sergei Tatevosov
    Pages 181-197
  7. Perfective Aspect and Accomplishment Situations in Mandarin Chinese

    • Hooi Ling Soh, Jenny Yi-Chun Kuo
    Pages 199-216
  8. Tense and Aspectual be in Child African American English

    • Janice E. Jackson, Lisa Green
    Pages 233-250
  9. Unmarked Already

    • Viviene Fong
    Pages 251-267
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 268-269

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Henk J. Verkuyl, Henriette Swart

  • University of Groningen, The Netherlands

    Angeliek Hout

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