This paper presents an extension of the Klagenfurt Conceptual Predesign Model (KCPM) allowing taking into account the non-functional requirements to the system. These requirements are treated as crosscutting concerns. This process could be also seen as an addition to the AOSD paradigm that brings the gap between the Aspect-Oriented Requirement Engineering and Aspect-Oriented Modeling. The exten...

The phenomenon of aspectual shift has been discussed by several people over the last ten years using an analogy with type coercion in programming languages. This paper tries to take the analogy literally and to spell out the details for an analysis of some common kinds of aspectual shift in English under the innuence of some types of temporal modiication. A model theoretic basis for this kind o...

The phenomenon of aspectual shift has been discussed by several people over the last ten years using an analogy with type coercion in programming languages. This paper tries to take the analogy literally and to spell out the details for an analysis of some common kinds of aspectual shift in English under the influence of some types of temporal modification. A model theoretic basis for this kind...

Previous studies of the lexical aspect of verbs following Vendler (1967) cannot account for verbs of degree achievements (Dowty 1979, Hay et al. 1999, among others). Building on recent studies on “scale structure” (Hay et al. 1999, Rappaport Hovav & Levin 2010, among others). We introduce a new aspectual feature [±scale] into the traditional Vendler system in order to more comprehensively accou...

This work addresses the complexities involved in aspectual composition by presenting a cognitively motivated analysis that makes use of active event representations. Verbs, arguments and temporal modiiers are characterized in terms of the conceptual features they impose or contribute to this framework, which employs representations of both motor-schematic and image-schematic change. By accommod...