We investigated whether brain potentials of grammatical aspect processing resemble semantic or morpho-syntactic processing, or whether they instead are characterized by an entirely distinct pattern in the same individuals. We studied aspect from the perspective of agreement between the temporal information in the context (temporal adverbials, e.g., Right now) and a morpho-syntactic marker of gr...

1. Introductory remarks In contemporary linguistic literature verbal aspect, along with the category of tense, has been one of the most controversial issues. This controversy, I believe, is to a large extent caused by certain misunderstanding and, as a result, misinterpretation of the genuine (that is, not superficially imposed through an application of some arbitrary semantic procedure) gramma...

Abstract This paper tackles the usefulness of comparing L2 learners against native speakers in empirical SLA studies focusing on grammatical aspect. Adapting view that interlanguage grammars should be analysed their own right instead as a deficient form target, we show expressing perspectivity (fulfilled by aspect markers) methodologically complicates analyses Grammaticality Judgment Tasks stud...

Grammatical aspect is a pervasive linguistic device that, according to linguistic analyses, allows speakers to encode different ways of construing events. For instance, the progressive (I am writing a book) is thought to reflect increased focus on the internal details of an event, as contrasted with the perfect (I have written a book). However, there is to date no experimental evidence that spe...

Machine translation between any two languages requires the generation of information that is implicit in the source language. In translating from Chinese to English, tense and other temporal information must be inferred from other grammatical and lexical cues. Moreover, Chinese multiple-clause sentences may contain inter-clausal relations (temporal or otherwise) that must be explicit in English...