This paper analyzes the argument structure of Yucatec Mayan. In line with traditional assumptions but in contrast to more recent proposals, we show that Yucatec has ergative morphology but not a split-ergative system. For intransitive verbs there is a strict correlation between aspect and the type of linker: they take ergative clitics in the imperfect, but nominative suffixes in the perfect. Mo...

This study investigated the role that agency information plays in children's early interpretations of grammatical aspect morphology, in particular, the progressive -ing and simple past forms. Fifty-nine children (two-, four- and five-year olds) were presented with a forced-choice sentence-to-scene matching task very similar to the one used by Weist and colleagues (Weist, 1991; Weist, Wysocka & ...

The aims of the paper are twofold. First, it provides a systematic qualitative corpus study into differences between Russian and Czech in use aspect chains single, episodic events, as well habitual contexts, which takes account role verb class, aspectual affixes, discourse relations, other factors contributing to overall interpretation given sentence. findings suggest that while makes narrative...

Readers actively construct representational models of meaning when reading text, and they do so by drawing on a range of kinds of information, from the specifi c linguistic forms of the sentences to knowledge about how the world works (Ferretti, Kutas, & McRae, 2007 ; Madden & Zwaan, 2003 ). The present set of studies focused on how grammatical aspect is integrated into a situation model and ho...

Language is a significant aspect of every culture. Kankanaey one the most widely spoken languages in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Philippines. Regrettably, study this language has very few resources and material available for it. This presents centering on -an morpheme words, how they developed, present situation, can be improved or enriched to meet needs future times generations ter...

This paper offers an analysis of a robustly attested semantic change in which progressive markers “spontaneously” emerge in languages, become entrenched in the grammatical system, and diachronically generalize by turning into imperfective markers. The pattern is cyclic in that the generalization is often followed by a re-emergence of new progressive markers. The analysis has a semantic componen...

3 An Introduction to IQ 3 3.1 The Homogeneity Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2 Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.3 Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.4 Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.5 An Example IQ Deriv...

The present paper sketches how the event calculus of Kowalski and Sergot may be extended to address the problems of aspectual composition and the imperfective paradox. The primary extensions include the introduction of additional types of eventualities and a distinction between actual and non-actual entities. The calculus has been implemented as a logic program, and the inferences automatically...

Throughout this paper, the semantic domain under scrutiny will be designated by the acronym ATAM (i.e., Actionality / Temporality / Aspect / Modality). This involves a modification of the usual practice, where TAM (or TMA) is routinely used. As will soon become clear, however, the actionality category cannot be neglected, considering its role in the semantics and acquisition of tense and aspect...