This thesis is principally concerned with aspectual composition. Although there have been some recent studies on this topic, none has succeeded in explaining all the different aspectual interactions existing between a verb and its arguments. This thesis explores the interpretation of sentences containing transitive or intransitive verbs and their arguments. It is found that sentence interpretat...

This paper presents and analyzes the encoding of aspect in Heritage Russian (HR), an incompletely acquired language spoken by those for whom another language became dominant at an early age. The HR aspectual system is distinct from the baseline. Aspectual distinctions are lost due to the leveling or loss of morphological marking. As a result, heritage speakers often maintain only one member of ...

In this paper we present the DyMAC aspect-component model that supports the specification of aspectual dependencies: these are explicit dependencies between advised and advising components involved in an aspect-oriented composition. DyMAC advocates a pure black-box approach to aspect-oriented composition and aspectual dependencies further extend this approach. The component model avoids explici...

Fall 2014 (Lecture notes version: Aug 4 th , 2014) 2 Preface Expressions like John and Mary or the water in my cup intuitively involve reference to collections of individuals or substances. The parthood relation between these collections and their components is not modeled in standard formal semantics of natural language (Montague 1974; Heim and Kratzer 1998), but it takes central stage in what...

Makalenin özünü evrenin temel yasalarından biri olan karşıtlıklar oluşturmaktadır. Karşıtlıklar geçmişten beri felsefe, dilbilim, psikoloji gibi birçok bilim dalına araştırma konusu olmuştur. Geçmişten günümüze devam eden bu Kazak atasözlerinde de yerini almıştır.
 birbirleriyle belirgin farklılık göstermelerine rağmen bir anlam parçasını paylaşmaktadır. Dilbilimde, karşıtlık kavramı eş di...

The four constraints on sentential anaphoric binding, known as binding principles, are observed to form a square of oppositions. With the formal tools of phase quantification, these constraints are analysed as the effect of phase quantifiers over reference markers in grammatical obliqueness hierarchies. The four quantifiers are shown to be organized in a square of duality. The impact of this re...