The eight articles in this volume reexamine the syntactic and semantic
analyses of aspect that have been proposed mainly on the basis of
aspectual expressions in English. The authors contrast expressions
sharing an analogous morpho-syntactic make-up and some core
distributional and semantic properties, drawing on a wide range of
new empirical data from languages as diverse as Syrian Arabic, Urdu,
Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, and German. The papers
address four aspect-related problems in particular: the grammatical
and semantic constraints on the different readings of the present
perfect, the semantic and syntactic analysis of auxiliaries, the
impact of adverbial expressions on the aspectual properties of the
sentence, and morphology-semantics mapping.
Patricia Cabredo Hofherr is a researcher at the Centre national de la
recherche scientifique in Paris. Brenda Laca is professor of
linguistics at the Université Paris VIII.
- Introduction
Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Brenda Laca
- 1 Plural Marking in Argument Supporting Nominalizations
Artemis Alexiadou, Gianna Iordăchioia and Elena Soare
- 2 Perfect Constructions in Syrian Arabic
Nora Boneh
- 3 Tense and Aspect in Urdu
Miriam Butt and Jafar Rizvi
- 4 Wheb Perfect means “Plural”: The Present Perfect in Northeastern Brazillian Portuguese
Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Brenda Laca and Sandra Carvalho
- 5 Aspectualized Futures in Indonesian and English
Bridget Copley
- 6 Russian Aspect as Number in Verbal Domain
Olga Kagan
- 7 The perfect-state
Björn Rothstein
- 8 German gerade a Unified Analysis of its Temporal Uses
Gerhard Schaden
- Index
January 2011