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OverviewThis 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; and a default analysis of sentences that are neither perfective nor imperfective. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carlota S. SmithPublisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers Edition: New edition Volume: v. 43 Weight: 0.698kg ISBN: 9780792324966ISBN 10: 079232496 Pages: 470 Publication Date: 31 October 1993 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Replaced By: 9780792346593 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |