The Cyclic and Non-cyclic Distinction and the Verbs of Sense in English  

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Ney, James W.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 7 no. 2 (1985), page 333-353.
Fulltext: 07_02_Ney.pdf (953.61KB)

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The now-form of the verbs of sense or sensation is different from the now-forn. of most other verbs in the English language. For instance, the now-form of the verb, think, requires the progressive tense marker whereas the now-form of the verb, see, requires the simple present tense marker. Thus, the patterning of the verbs of sense with the differing tenses in English appears to be easily explicable at first glance, but on examination, it turns out to be fairly complex. There are many reasons for this, including the fact that the action underlying cyclic verbs such as look at, which describes an action that must be terminated before it can be repeated, and is different from the action underlying non-cyclic verbs such as see, which can be maintained indefinitely without any necessary termination. From this, it is possible to show that the tense-aspect markings inherent in the higher verb or underlying tense-aspect markings affect the grammaticality judgements rendering grammatical forms which in other environments would be ungrammatical. Information from this analysis can best be incorporated in a theory of grammar with the use of Weinreich's transfer features which are assigned to the underlying feature matrices to predict the occurrence of all the other surface forms.

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