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Towards a typology of discontinuous past marking
The paper discusses verbal markers of the past tense with a meaning roughly charac-terizable as ”past and not present” or ”past with no present relevance”...
Keywords: aspect, tense, past, pluperfect
04/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagCan completive and durative adverbials function as tests for telicity? Evidence from English and Chinese
Telicity is an important concept in the study of aspect. While the compatibility tests with completive and durative adverbials have long been in operation as a diagnostic for telicity, their validity and reliability have rarely been questioned...
Keywords: aspect, telicity, linguistic test, corpus-based approach, English, Chinese
00/0000 | Corpus Linguistics and Lingustic Theory, Walter de GruyterSemantic and functional diversification of reciprocal and middle prefixes in New Caledonian and other Austronesian languages
This article analyses the functions and meanings of the reflexes of the Proto-Oceanic (POc) prefix
Keywords: aspect, Austronesian, collective, cooperative, iterative, middle, New Caledonia, Oceanic, pluractionality, polysemy, reciprocal, reduplication, reflexive, semantic change, transitivity, voice
06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterA typological overview of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu
The typologist reader is presented here with an overview of the most interesting characteristics of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu...
Keywords: actionality, animacy, aspect, clause combining, deixis, Mwotlap, negation, number, incorporation, Oceanic, possession, predication, pronoun, referentiality, serial verbs, valency change, vowel harmony
06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterA metaphor in search of a source domain: The categories of Slavic aspect
I propose that human experience of matter provides the source domain for the metaphor that motivates the grammatical category of aspect in Russian...
Keywords: aspect, metaphor, embodiment, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, Russian, Slavic languages
09/2004 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterHow fictive dynamicity motivates aspect marking: The riddle of the Finnish quasi-resultative construction
This article studies fictive dynamicity as a factor motivating aspectual case marking in Finnish...
Keywords: aspect, subjectivity, case marking
02/2005 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterThe changing relationship of tense and aspect in the history of Greek
Greek has always been assumed to possess a verbal system organized on the basis of aspect, with tense playing only a secondary part, and to have retained this state of affairs throughout its history...
Keywords: tense, aspect, verbal system, Aktionsart, perfectivity
01/2008 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag