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The Parameter of Aspect presents a unified theory of aspect within Universal Grammar. It provides an unusual combination of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic approaches to a single domain, and gives detailed linguistic analyses of five languages with very different aspectual systems: English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Navajo and Russian. Extensive discussion of the linguistic evidence is complemented by a formal semantic treatment in the framework of Discourse Representation Theory, with an explicit procedure for computing aspectual meaning from syntactic surface structure. Among the theoretical innovations is a principled account of the interaction between viewpoint (perfective, imperfective) and situation type (state, event); a level of pragmatic analysis at which contrastive and inferred meanings are stated; a default analysis of sentences that are neither perfective nor imperfective in viewpoint. This second edition has been completely revised to include further development of the two-component theory, including new treatments of boundedness, dynamism and a general account of aspectual shifts. Syntactic and semantic tests are given for determining aspectual categories in all five languages.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Grammar, syntax & morphology

• Full title: Parameter of Aspect
• Author: C. S. Smith
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 353
• EAN: 9780792346593
• ISBN: 0792346599
• ID: 01395467
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 610 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 234 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. August 1997

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