Perspectives on Aspect

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Henk Verkuyl (Editor), Henriette de Swart (Editor), Angeliek Van Hout (Editor), Angeliek Van Hout (Editor), Henriette de Swart (Editor), Henk J. Verkuyl (Editor), H.J. Verkuyl (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 14.04.2009
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing
• EAN: 9781402032301
• ISBN: 978-1-4020-3230-1
• Pages: 270
• Illustrations: X, 268 p.
• Dimensions (packing): 17.1 x 24.2 x 2 cm
• Weight (packing): 580 g
• Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics > 32; Studies in Theoretical Psychol > 32; Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
• Subjects: Sprachgeschichte, Deutsch, Semantik, Psycholinguistik, Spanisch, B, Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, Linguistics, Psycholinguistik und Kognitive Linguistik, Sprache: Geschichte und Allgemeines, Bedeutung (semantisch) / Bedeutungslehre, Slavische Sprachen, Sprachwissenschaft / Sprachgeschichte, Sprachwissenschaft / Psycholinguistik, Spanien / Sprache, Social Sciences, Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics, Psycholinguistics, Language: reference & general, Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages, Germanic Languages, Germanic & Scandinavian languages, Theoretical Linguistics, Romance Languages, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, Slavic (Slavonic) languages, Balto-Slavic languages, Slavic and Baltic Languages