کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
935730 923915 2008 26 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Perfectivity as aspectual definiteness: Time and the event in Russian
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Perfectivity as aspectual definiteness: Time and the event in Russian
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper seeks to give a unified semantics for perfectivity in Russian within an explicitly decompositional syntactic framework. The aim is to account for the similar behaviour of the perfective class of predicates, despite the differences in the syntactic and semantic behaviour of the prefixes that attach to imperfective roots to give the perfective form. The first part of the paper gives the data that show that prefix types must be separated into at least two types (‘inner’ or ‘lexical’ prefixes vs. ‘outer’ or ‘superlexical’ prefixes) and that traditional notions of telicity and/or quantization are not uniformly correlated with linguistic perfectivity. The second half of the paper argues for an interpretation of perfectivity as corresponding to the ‘definiteness’ of the assertion time with respect to the run time of the event, in terms of a syntax–semantics account that makes use of both event and time variables.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Lingua - Volume 118, Issue 11, November 2008, Pages 1690-1715