Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related ProblemsCambridge University Press, 03.06.1976 - 142 Seiten An introduction to the general linguistic study of aspect. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect, the morphology and the semantics of aspect, and structuralist and philosophical approaches. Dr Comrie draws his examples particularly from English and the Slavonic and Romance languages, but also from Arabic, Chinese, Welsh, Greek and a variety of others. This is the first study of aspect, considered as a general linguistic phenomenon. It is intended for students of individual languages as well as for students of linguistics. |
Inhalt
Perfective and imperfective | 16 |
112 Perfectivity and other aspectual values | 21 |
12 Imperfective | 24 |
121 Habitual | 26 |
1211 Habitual and other aspectual values | 30 |
122 Progressive | 32 |
Aspect and inherent meaning | 41 |
22 Telic and atelic | 44 |
512 Combined tenseaspect morphology | 94 |
52 Syntactic expressions of aspectual oppositions | 98 |
5212 Contingent state | 103 |
5213 Direction and aspect | 106 |
5221 Perfect and inferential | 108 |
Markedness | 111 |
61 Markedness and semantics | 112 |
62 Markedness and morphology | 114 |
23 State and dynamic situation | 48 |
Perfect | 52 |
31 Types of perfect | 56 |
312 Experiential perfect | 58 |
313 Perfect of persistent situation | 60 |
32 Perfect and other aspects | 61 |
33 Prospective aspect | 64 |
Aspect and tense | 66 |
42 Aspectual distinctions restricted to certain tenses | 71 |
43 Narrative present | 73 |
44 Combined tenseaspect oppositions | 78 |
45 Aspect and time reference in tenseless languages | 82 |
46 Aspect and voice | 84 |
Formal expression of aspectual oppositions | 87 |
511 Prefixing in BaltoSlavonic Georgian and Hungarian | 88 |
63 Neutralisation | 116 |
65 Markedness and context | 118 |
66 Degrees of markedness | 122 |
Language guide | 123 |
A2 Aspectual systems of individual languages | 124 |
A22 Slavonic | 125 |
A23 Romance | 126 |
A24 Greek | 127 |
A25 Chinese Mandarin | 128 |
Recent approaches to aspect | 129 |
B2 Feature analysis | 130 |
B3 Modeltheoretic semantics | 132 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adverb aktionsart Ancient Greek Aorist aspect and tense aspectual distinction aspectual oppositions aspectual system aspectual values atelic auxiliary Bill budu Bulgarian Celtic languages characterisation combination construction cough difference discussion dynamic situation English Progressive examples experiential perfect fective formal French Future Tense Georgian grammar grammaticalised habitual meaning Igbo Imperfective Aorist Imperfective Present indicate individual languages Indo-European Indo-European languages Inferential instance Ipfv Isačenko John is singing lexical linguistics literally markedness Modern Greek morphological narrative Present non-Progressive nonfinite nonstative verbs Old Church Slavonic Past Definite Past Participle past situation Past Tense past time reference Perfective and Imperfective Perfective Aspect perfective forms Perfective Future perfective meaning Perfective non-Past Perfective/Imperfective periphrastic possible prefix Present Tense progressive forms progressive meaning relation relative past restricted Russian Scots Gaelic semantic semantic distinctions sentence Simple Past simple verb Slavonic languages Spanish specifically stative verbs stem subversive organisation suffix telic situation temporal term versus Yoruba
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Seite 4 - Another way of explaining the difference between perfective and imperfective meaning is to say that the perfective looks at the situation from outside, without necessarily distinguishing any of the internal structure of the situation, whereas the imperfective looks at the situation from inside, and as such is crucially concerned with the internal structure of the situation...
Seite 3 - As the general definition of aspect, we may take the formulation that 'aspects are different ways of viewing the internal temporal constituency of a situation
Seite 3 - The second verb presents the totality of the situation referred to (here, my entry) without reference to its internal temporal constituency: the whole of the situation is presented as a single unanalysable whole, with beginning, middle, and end rolled into one...
Seite 5 - Aspect is not concerned with relating the time of the situation to any other time-point, but rather with the internal temporal constituency of the one situation; one could state the difference as one between situation-internal time (aspect) and situation-external time (tense).
Seite 12 - perfective ' contrasts with ' impcrfective ', and denotes a situation viewed in its entirety, without regard to internal temporal constituency; the term 'perfect' refers to a past situation which has present relevance, for instance the present result of a past event (his arm has been broken).
Seite 4 - The other forms, ie those referring to the Situation of John's reading, do not present the Situation in this way, but rather make explicit reference to the internal temporal constituency of the Situation.