Over the last twenty years aspectual notions have been increasingly appealed to in structuring verbal lexical semantic representations and, concomitantly, in formulating principles of argument expression. This move has been further fueled by the significant insights that have emerged from this line of research. Yet, despite the enthusiasm for aspectual notions that their proliferation demonstra...

Though human beings are experts in the determination of aspectual relations, current models of Aspect lack principled parsimony. We show that even on a limited segment of language, determining aspectual interpretations seems to require much ad hoc information. Our suggestion is to give parsimony first priority. The model we present in this paper is limited in scope, but its complexity is bounde...

This paper is the first in a series of two papers presenting recent developments concerning the interaction between aspectual classes of predicates and the semantics of aspectual forphrases. Aspectual for-phrases can felicitously modify stative and activity predicates, but not (basic) accomplishment and achievement predicates. Earlier literature proposed that this is because aspectual for-phras...

No event reading Event reading No agent-oriented modifiers Agent-oriented modifiers Subjects are possessives subjects are arguments by phrases are non-arguments by phrases are arguments No implicit argument control Implicit argument control No aspectual modifiers Aspectual modifiers Modifiers like frequent, constant only with plural Modifiers like frequent, constant appear with singular May be ...

In this paper I will address some questions arising from current investigations on the aspectual interpretation of utterances and, in particular, the aspectual reinterpretation involved in it. In order to illustrate the issue let me consider some assumptions and observations made in this field of semantic analysis. A general assumption that seems to be accepted by most researchers is Thesis 1.

Modern thought in chemical education seems to be shaped by a set of dichotomies that are useful in indentifying and highlighting problems, as well as in generating and communicating novel ideas. However, these binary oppositions may also constrain our thinking. Among these dichotomies, we draw attention to ten different oppositions including, among others, the pairs Abstract/Concrete, Algorithm...

Modern thought in chemical education seems to be shaped by a set of dichotomies that are useful in identifying and highlighting problems, as well as in generating and communicating novel ideas. However, these binary oppositions may also constrain our thinking. Among these dichotomies, we draw attention to 10 different oppositions including, among others, the pairs abstract/concrete, algorithmic...

this study compares and contrasts tense and inherent aspect in english and persian lan-guage from a semantic and syntactic point of view. the aspectual verb system in both english and persian are semantically interpreted alike. however, in persian a group of stative verbs are grammaticalized by the imperfective obligatory morpheme mi-, while in english all sta-tive verbs perfective. furthermore...