German and French football language display tense-aspect-mood (TAM) forms which differ from the TAM use in other genres. In talk, present indicative may replace pluperfect subjunctive. reports of matches, imperfective past occur instead a perfective tense-aspect form. We argue that two phenomena share functional core are licensed same way, is direct result genre they in. More precisely, match a...

There are a handful of semantic concepts that serve an organizing function within the grammar. The over-arching goal of this research program is to examine the conceptual origins of these concepts (cf. Wagner & Lakusta, in press): To what extent is the infant mind specially prepared to acquire the natural semantics of language? One of these core concepts is Aspect, and the specific goal of this...

Case in Lotha, (a Tibeto-Burman language spoken Wokha District of Nagaland) is marked by suffixes that appear to the right noun it marks. In Lotha ergative marker can combine with both nouns and pronouns, however, nominative markers only occur pronouns. has aspectual split ergativity which word class (noun vs. pronoun), aspect, tense are determining factors. The occurs mainly A argument a trans...

In the Type A Imperfective paradigm of Tigrinya (Ethio-Semitic), unsuffixed verbs have a geminate medial consonant (yÁ-s√bbÁr), while verbs with a subject or object suffix do not have gemination (yÁ-s√br-u). This alternation has been analyzed from various points of view. A fundamental question is whether the more basic stem-form has gemination (Berhane 1991, Rose 1993) or not (Harris 1987, Dena...

This paper promotes the hypothesis that central grammatical categories must be analysed as pragmatic rather than semantic entities, in order to explain their seemingly redundant typological distribution. A case is made of the relatively complex English past tense system versus the single Russian past tense, and it is shown how the distinctions within the former system can be analysed in terms o...

Thai has imperfective aspectual morphemes that are not obligatory in usage, whereas English has obligatory grammaticized imperfective aspectual marking on the verb. Furthermore, Thai has verb final deictic-path verbs that form a closed class set. The current study investigated if obligatoriness of these grammatical categories in Thai and English affects the expression of co-occurring temporal e...

Much attention in recent Korean linguistics literature has been paid to the imperfective puzzle surrounding the periphrastic marker -ko iss-. This marker corresponds to English BE + -ing in a way but, unlike its English counterpart, -ko (KO) is a connective meaning „and‟, and iss(ISS) literally means „exist‟, though it is often glossed as BE or Copular in the literature. The imperfective puzzle...

The CASK method (Computer-aided Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge) is being used at CELTA with the SEMANA (SEMantic ANAlyser) software, which was especially designed for this purpose. We use the notation of semantic feature structures as a meta-language for describing the category of aspect in Polish regardless of its pertaining to various levels of expression (morphological, syntactical or lex...

The study examines how prototypes and typological relationships between the L1, L2 target language (TL) interact with TL proficiency in learning Italian as additional language. Low-proficiency high-proficiency undergraduate learners of (N = 25) Swedish L1 performed an oral retelling story test, aiming to elicit aspectual contrast perfective-imperfective. Their tense selection was analyzed consi...