Date: 18-Jan-2007 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Interfaces with English Aspect: Ziegeler
Title: Interfaces with English Aspect
Subtitle: Diachronic and empirical studies
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 82
Published: 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Author: Debra Ziegeler
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027230928 Pages: 325 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027230928 Pages: 325 Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Abstract:
The field of verbal aspect has been a focus for the derivation of a multiplicity of theoretical approaches ranging over decades of linguistic research. From the point of view of recent studies, though, there has been relatively little emphasis on the nature of the interaction of aspect with other categories, and the ways in which our knowledge of aspect acts as a primary semantic contributor to the creation of other basic verbal parameters such as tense and modality. This book aims to cross some of the categorial borders, using a collection of studies on the interfaces of English aspect with other grammatical domains. The studies in the book have been assembled in order to answer two central issues surrounding the nature of English aspect: the possibility of the historical co-existence of a perfective and imperfective grammatical distinction in English, and the derivation of modality as an inference arising out of specific conflicts and combinations of lexical and grammatical aspect. In answering these questions, a data-driven, rather than a theory-driven approach is favoured, and the general principles of Gricean pragmatics and grammaticalisation are applied to a wide range of empirical sources to propose alternative explanations to some long-established problems of English historical linguistics and semantics.
Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgements ix-x Abbreviations xi List of figures and tables xiii-xv Introduction 1-27 Imperfectivity and the English Progressive 29-88 Perfectivity in English: The case of do 89-137 Proximative aspect 139-207 Aspectual collocations and nascent modality 209-239 Generic aspect in the emergence of future will 241-285 Concluding thoughts 287-298 References 299-316 Name Index 317-320 Subject index 321-325
Linguistic Field(s):
Historical Linguistics
Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax
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