The Intergressive as a New Category of Verbal Aktionsart  

Oleh:

Egg, Markus

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 12 no. 4 (Apr. 1995), page 311-356.
Topik: intergressive; verbal aktionsart;
Fulltext: vol 12, no 4, p 311-356.pdf (2.36MB)

Isi artikel

The topic of this paper are predicates like to play a sonata or to cough, whose classification in proposed systems of aknonsarten is unsatisfactory I will present an augmentation of Dowry's system of aktionsart to classify these predicates adequately. This revised classification employs the features 'interval-based' (— can be evaluated with respect to extended periods of time only), 'bounded' and 'tehc'. Boundedness and tehcity are different features. Bounded predicates apply to limited stretches of time only, tehc predicates introduce a change of state. The features are ordered (tehc predicates are bounded, bounded predicates are interval-based) and distinguish four mutually non-overlapping groups of aktionsarten: state, process, intergressives and change. Intergressive predicates are represented as in Dowty (1979), Le. more complex predicates are analysed as less complex ones linked by suitable operators. Two intergressive operators account for the whole range of intergressive predicates. The close parallel between the classification of aknonsarten and the classification of nominal expressions carries over to the distinction of intergressive and change predicates. Next, an extension of one intergressive operator to non-temporal domains will be sketched and, finally, I will show that the assumption of an intergressive aktionsart has wide repercussions in other semantic fields.

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