The aim of the paper is to present a preliminary analysis of Polish children's gesticulation in narrating (re-telling) a cartoon. The children are nine year old native speakers of Polish. The analysis presented was focused mainly on the semantic correlation between gestural and speech modalities, the viewpoint of the gesture, types of gestures, gesture space and structure of

In this paper we will extend Smith’s (1997) two-component aspect theory to develop a two-level model of situation aspect in which situation aspect is modelled as verb classes at the lexical level and as situation types at the sentential level. Situation types are the composite result of the rule-based interaction between verb classes and complements, arguments, peripheral adjuncts and viewpoint...