The Felicity of Aspectual For-Phrases - Part 1: Homogeneity

The Felicity of Aspectual For-Phrases - Part 2: Incremental Homogeneity

This paper is the second in a series of two papers presenting recent developments concerning the interaction between aspectual classes of predicates and the semantics of aspectual for-phrases. Aspectual for-phrases must modify predicates which are homogeneous meaning that the predicate spreads appropriately to subintervals. For eventive predicates the relevant notion of homogeneity should be a ...

Incremental Homogeneity in the Semantics of Aspectual For-phrases

This means that the italicized sentences in (1) are required to be homogeneously true at subintervals of an interval of the type specified by the for-phrase. The examples in (1) already make an appropriate definition of the notion of homogeneity non-trivial, since states are argued to be homogeneous down to instants, while activities are homogeneous down to larger intervals whose precise size i...

Contrastive Analysis of Aspectual Oppositions in English and Persian

This article aims at contrasting aspectual oppositions in English and Persian in the context of the novel The Old Man and the Sea, and its translation by Daryabandari (1983) as the data. Unlike English, in Persian perfective and imperfective forms are morphologically marked. While the vast majority of English simple past forms are translated into Persian by past perfective forms, only less than...

Aspectual Constraints on Italian Absolute Phrases Aspectual Constraints on Italian Absolute Phrases

Hybrid phrases: the Danish sidder og phrase

In Danish aspectual differences are expressed by certain verbal constructions. Such aspectual constructions have not received much attention in the Danish literature, but cf. Diderichsen (1946, p. 156), Hansen (1967, vol. 3, pp. 30–31), Jensen (1985, p. 113), Brandt (1992) and Jørgensen (2001). (1) is an example of such an aspectual construction which is used to express imperfective aspect, and...