Syntax and Semantics, Volume 14: Tense and Aspect

329 Pages·1981·60.486 MB·English

by  Annie Zaenen, Stephen R. Anderson, Philip Tedesch (editor), John P. Kimball (editor)

SYNTAX and SEMANTICS
VOLUME 14
EDITORIAL BOARD
General Editor
STEPHEN R. ANDERSON
Department of Linguistics
University of California,
Los Angeles
Advisory Editors
JUDITH AISSEN JANET DEAN FODOR
Yale University University of Connecticut
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JOAN BRESNAN
Massachusetts Institute Harvard University
of Technology
BARBARA HALL PART EE
University of Masachusetts
SANDRA CHUNG
University of California, JERROLD SADOCK
San Diego University of Chicago
PETER CULICOVER PAUL SCHACHTER
University of California, University of California,
Irvine Los Angeles
SYNTAX and SEMANTICS
VOLUME 14
Tense and Aspect
Edited by
Philip J. Tedeschi
Department of Hospital Administration
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Annie Zaenen
Center for Cognitive Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors xiii
Preface xv
The Ancient Greek Aorist as the Aspect of Countable Action 1
DAVID ARMSTRONG
1. Introduction 1
2. The Aorist 2
3. Negative Results 9
4. Conclusions 10
References 12
Of Tense and Aspect: One Analysis 13
MICHAEL BENNETT
1. Introduction 13
2. Helman's Analysis 13
3. Terminology and Ontology 16
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4. Some Metaphysical Justification 17
5. Two Common Objections 19
6. "Bare" Plurality and Generic Readings 22
7. Durative Adverbial Phases 27
References 29
Aspect and Quantification 31
LAURI CARLSON
1. Introduction 31
2. Verb Aspect 32
3. Aspectual Properties of Quantified Sentences 47
References 63
Aspect and Voice: Some Reflections on Perfect and Passive 65
BERNARD COMRIE
1. Introduction 65
2. Conceptual Framework 66
3. Data 72
4. Conclusions 78
References 78
On the Definition of the Telic-Atelic
(Bounded-Nonbounded) Distinction 79
OSTEN DAHL
1. Terminology 79
2. The T Property and the P Property 81
3. Problematic Cases 83
References 90
Aspectual "Skewing" in Two Australian Languages:
Mara, Nunggubuyu 91
JEFFREY HEATH
1. General 91
2. Mara Verbal Aspect 92
3. Nunggubuyu Nominal (and Verbal) Aspect 97
4. Conclusion 101
References 102