The syntactic nature of inner aspect: a minimalist perspective
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Beteilige Person: MacDonald, Jonathan E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Linguistik aktuell vol. 133
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Beschreibung:Substantial reorganization and expansion of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Stony Brook University, 2006 Ph. D.) presented under the title: The syntax of inner aspect
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-235) and index
The Syntactic Nature of Inner Aspect; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of abbreviations; chapter 1. An introduction to the syntax of inner aspect; chapter 2. The syntax of eventives 1; chapter 3. The syntax of eventives 2; chapter 4. A lexical derivation of achievements; Chapter 5. Minimalist variation in inner aspect; chapter 6. The autonomy of inner aspect; chapter 7. A consideration of other aspectual facts; chapter 8. The syntactic nature of inner aspect and some speculative remarks; References; Index
This book explores the syntactic nature of inner aspect from a minimalist perspective. It begins with the new observation that there are two independent properties at play in English inner aspect: the object-to-event mapping and event structure. From a discussion of English statives and Russian, it is concluded that the former property is variant and the latter universal; a minimalist conception of language variation arises naturally in this context. Additionally, an exploration of a lexical derivational approach to achievements leads to the expectation that there are no accomplishments in the
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