Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop, Andrej Malchukov

By Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop, Andrej Malchukov

In recent times, we've got witnessed, at the one hand, an elevated curiosity in cross-linguistic facts in formal semantic reports, and, nonetheless, an elevated quandary for semantic matters in language typology. besides the fact that, simply few experiences mix semantic and typological learn for a selected semantic area (such because the papers in Bach et al. (1995) on quantification and Smith (1997) on aspect). This ebook brings jointly formal semanticists with a cross-linguistic point of view and/or these engaged on lesser-known languages, and typologists attracted to semantic conception, to debate semantic edition within the particular area of demanding, point, and Mood/Modality.

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In particular, Comrie (1976: 71–72) cites example from Romance languages where the aspectual distinction between perfective and imperfective is restricted to the past (aorist vs. imperfect). Other examples are not difficult to come by. For example, in Hixkaryana the tense/aspect system includes, apart from the nonpast in –yaha, three different forms referring to the past: immediate past in –no, recent past completive in –yako and recent past continuative in –yakonano (Derbyshire 1979). In Mangarayi, the aspectual distinction (punctual/continuous) is also restricted to the past (Merlan 1982).

I propose an analysis that follows de Swart on many points, but keeps temporal and aspectual contributions separate. I argue that such an analysis has a larger cross-linguistic coverage than one that combines the two in a single operator. The argumentation is based on the aspectual system of Ancient Greek, but holds for any language in which temporal and aspectual information are encoded in separate morphemes, and in which the opposition perfective/ imperfective is not restricted to the past tense.

Ingr/compl prog/hab .. .. contribution perfective/imperfective .. .. .. .. .. QUA HOM result predicate-argument structure HOM .. ╇ The contribution of the perfective/imperfective In the next section, I discuss two ways in which the idea sketched above can be made more precise. The two approaches share the general pattern illustated in Figure 1, but differ in the way in which the interpretation is composed. 2╅ Aspectual operators versus coercion In this section, I discuss two ways in which the idea of the perfective as a quantizer and the imperfective as a homogenizer can be developed further: in an aspectual operator approach and in a coercion analysis.

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