Japanese Aspect and Kinds of Eventualities  

Oleh:

McClure, William

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 1-2 (1996), page 277-293.
Topik: progressive; aspect; event structure; Japanese; te-iru
Fulltext: 18_01-02_McClure.pdf (1.07MB)

Isi artikel

Simple predicates in any language are observed to have one of three 'natural' temporal structures: states, changes, or processes, exemplified in English by the predicates: stink, die, and swim. While similar classes obviously exist in Japanese, we find that their manifestation is different. In particular, while English die can have a progressive interpretation, its Japanese equivalent sinu cannot. In this paper, I give formal definitions for each of the 'natural' temporal structures, and I use these definitions to account for the behavior of the English progressive and its nearest Japanese equivalent, the te-iru construction.

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