Perspectives on Aspect (eBook) von Henk J. Verkuyl

Preface Affiliations Angeliek VAN HOUT, Henriëtte 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. Veerle VAN GEENHOVEN: Atelicity, pluractionality, and adverbial quantification. Hana FILIP: On accumulating and having it all. Perfectivity, prefixes and bare arguments. Christopher PIÑÓN: Adverbs of completion in an event semantics. Emmon BACH: Eventualities, grammar, and language diversity. Sergei TATEVOSOV: From habituals to futures: discerning the path of diachronic development. Hooi Ling SOH& Jenny Yi-Chun KUO: Perfective aspect and accomplishment situations in Mandarin Chinese. J.Michael TERRY: The past perfective and present perfect in African-American English. Janice E. JACKSON& Lisa GREEN: Tense and aspectual be in child African American English. Vivienne FONG: Unmarked already: Aspectual expressions in two varieties of English.

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.