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Title Theoretical and crosslinguistic approaches to the semantics of aspect [electronic resource] / edited by Susan Rothstein.

Imprint Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing, c2008.

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Description viii, 453 p. : ill.
Series Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 110
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 110.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events / Malka Rappaport Hovav -- Telicity, atomicity, and the Vendler classification of verbs / Susan Rothstein -- Aspects of a typology of direction / Joost Zwarts -- 1066: on the differences between the tense-perspective-aspect systems of English and Dutch / Fred Landman -- Tenses for the living and the dead: lifetime inferences reconsidered / Anita Mittwoch -- Formal and informal semantics of telicity / Elena Paducheva and Mati Pentus -- Events and maximalization: the case of telicity and perfectivity / Hana Filip -- Aspect and bounded quantity complements in Russian / Hans Robert Mehlig -- Negation, intensionality, and aspect: interaction with NP semantics / Barbara H. Partee -- Habituality and the habitual aspect / Nora Boneh and Edit Doron -- Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora / Maria Bittner -- The syntax and semantics of change/transition: evidence from Mandarin Chinese / Hooi Ling Soh -- Bare nouns and telicity in Japanese / Keiko Yoshida.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Aspect.
Semantics.
Typology (Linguistics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Rothstein, Susan Deborah.
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ISBN 9789027233745 (hb : alk. paper)
9027233748 (hb : alk. paper)

 
    
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