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This book presents a unified theory of aspect as a parameter of universal grammar. It provides a combination of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches to a single domain, as well as detailed linguistic analysis of five languages with very different aspectual systems: French, English, Russian, Mandarin Chinese and Navajo. Extensive discussion of the linguistic evidence is complemented by a formal semantic treatment, set in the framework of Discourse Representation Theory. The analysis offers an explicit procedure for arriving at the aspectual meaning of a sentence from its syntactic surface structure. Among the theoretical innovations are a principled account of the interaction between viewpoint (perfective, imperfective) and situation type (state, event); a principled account of aspectual shifts in language; a level of pragmatic analysis at which inferred meanings are stated; a default analysis of sentences that are neither perfective nor imperfective.

Table of Contents:
I.- 1 — The Approach.- 2 — Situation Aspect.- 3 — The Linguistic Realization of the Situation Types.- 4 — Viewpoint Aspect.- 5 — Temporal Location.- 6 — The Formal Analysis of Aspect.- 7 — Aspectual Meaning in Discourse Representation Theory.- II.- 8 — The Aspectual System of English.- 9 — The Aspectual System of French.- 10 — The Aspectual System of Russian.- 11 — The Aspectual System of Mandarin Chinese.- 12 — The Aspectual System of Navajo.- References.- General Index.- Name Index.

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From the reviews: "By her systematic analysis of the two-component theory and her strict commitment to its principles, Smith allows the reader to appreciate the accuracy of the general analysis and evaluate its applicability to individual languages. The book is well organized and easy to followa ]In conclusion, this work is an important contribution to the study of aspect. The first edition of the book became one of the basic works on aspect, cited by many and used as a textbook by some. I believe this edition will gain the same respect." (Galia Hatav, Pragmatics and Cognition, 2000)


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  • ISBN-13: 9780792311362
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 470
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0792311361
  • Publisher Date: 31 Oct 1991
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: 43 Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy


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