In this paper, I demonstrate that verbs can be disambiguated according to aspect by rules that exam° hue the WordNet category of the direct object. First, when evaluated over a corpus of medical reports, I show that WordNet categories correlate with aspectual class. Then, I develop a rule for distinguishing between stative and event occurrences of have by the WordNet category of the direct obje...

Aspect is undoubtedly the most capricious grammatical category of the Russian language. It has often been asserted as a mystery accessible only to native speakers, leaving all the others lost in its apparently infinite clutter. Recent work in cognitive linguistics has tried to bring order to the seeming chaos of the Russian aspectual system. But these approaches have not been operationalized so...

During the Root Infinitive (RI) stage children produce both stative and eventive finite verbs, but their non-finite verbs are restricted to eventive predicates (Hoekstra & Hyams, 1998; Wijnen, 1997). This Eventivity Constraint (EC) holds cross-linguistically – for RIs in Dutch, German, French, and Russian, ‘bare perfectives’ in Greek, bare participles (participles without an auxiliary) in Itali...

Linguistic expressions form interesting patterns in discourse. In the domain of temporality, the morphemes of tense and aspectual viewpoint pattern significantly within a discourse. Shifts of viewpoint and tense are often associated with shifts of direction, and with the distinction between foreground and background. One important reason for this effect is that aspectual viewpoint and tense for...

In this paper we propose a layered approach for aspects’ specification and integration at the logical architecture design level. The proposed approach is based on multiple nominal views and crosscutting aspectual views, composed by architectural aspects. To demonstrate the concept applicability, we apply our ideas to a data warehouse architecture design where the metadata is represented as an a...

I describe an implemented computational model of verbal aspect that supports the proposition that the semantics of aspect is grounded in sensory-motor primitives. In this theory, aspectual expressions refer to schematized processes that recur in sensory-motor control (such as goal, periodicity, iteration, nal state, duration, and parameters such as force and e ort). This active model of aspect ...

Aspectual shifts in connection with temporal adverbial modification usually are treated by close analogy with type-coercion in programming languages. The paper shows that by taking a good metaphor too literally, semantic research so far did not do full justice to the kind of flexibility observable in the natural language examples. A new proposal is developed within the framework of finite-state...