Aspectual verb forms in directive utterances (12th‒21th centuries) It is described the use of Spanish aspectual verbal constructions between 12th and 21st centuries. argued that, addition to their values, these fulfil some pragmatic functions formal registers, especially politeness strategies legal administrative discourse, as well expression instructions procedural discourse. Some other illocu...

We present an experimental study making use of a machine learning approach to identify the factors that affect the aspectual value that characterises polysemous verbs under each of their readings. The study is based on various morpho-syntactic and semantic features collected from a French lexical resource and on a gold standard aspectual classification of verb readings designed by an expert. Ou...

3. CHALLENGES FOR COMPOSITIONALITY 3.1. TYPE MISMATCH 3.1.1. Quantifier interpretation 3.1.2. Real-time processing of quantified expressions 3.1.3. Type mismatch in conjunctions 3.2. COERCION 3.2.1. Complement coercion 3.2.2. Coercion as VP-insertion 3.2.2.1. Evidence in favor of VP-insertion 3.2.2.2. Evidence against VP-insertion 3.2.3. Real-time processing of complement coercion 3.2.3.1. Basi...

This paper revisits the aspectual under-extension found in children’s production data, in which children preferentially link telic predicates with perfective/past morphology and atelic predicates with imperfective/present morphology. I argue that these aspectual groupings reflect a deep property of linguistic/conceptual organization and are manifested in various ways throughout the lifespan. Th...