Achievements, durativity and scales

Zsófia Gyarmathy

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Zsófia Gyarmathy, Achievements, durativity and scales (2015), Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 9783832589332

Beschreibung / Abstract

This book contributes to the growing work on scale-based formal semantic approaches to verbal phenomena. It presents a new scale-based framework for both aspectual classes and grammatical aspect with the aim of offering an analysis of achievements in the progressive. In order to analyse these, the temporal trace function is relativised to a granularity parameter, and the semantics of the progressive operator is assumed to involve partitivity over scales of change. To this end, a novel concept of a scale of change is adopted, building on a bottom-up idea of associating scales with events and characterising verbal predicates via event-level scales. As a crucial departure from former scale-based approaches, predicates like ärrive" are associated with both two-valued and multi-valued scales of change. The new framework can then capture fine-grained aspectual class differences and predict the interpretations of the progressive for different aspectual classes.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • BEGINN
  • 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 1.1 Aspectual classes
  • 1.2 Issues and proposal
  • 1.3 Structure of the dissertation
  • 2 THE CORE DATA AND A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT THEORIES
  • 2.1 Vendler†™s achievements in the scope of the progressive
  • 2.2 Previous analyses of progressive achievements
  • 2.3 Scale-based frameworks
  • 3 THE POINT OF DEPARTURE FOR A NEW ACCOUNT OF PROGRESSIVE ACHIEVEMENTS
  • 3.1 Durativity
  • 3.2 Existential presupposition of culminations
  • 3.3 The basic ingredients
  • 4 SLOW-MOTION INTERPRETATIONS
  • 4.1 The granularity parameter
  • 4.2 Granularity-dependence and slow-motion readings
  • 4.3 Implications of the granularity-based account
  • 5 PRELIMINARY PROCESS INTERPRETATIONS
  • 5.1 Scales of change
  • 5.2 Scale structures by aspectual class
  • 5.3 The progressive
  • 5.4 Culminations and happenings in the progressive
  • 5.5 Imminency and other characteristics
  • 5.6 Beyond English
  • 6 CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • APPENDICES
  • A The mathematical concepts used in the dissertation
  • B The scalar trace

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