Aspect

An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems

By: Bernard Comrie

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Paperback | 2 August 1976

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An introduction to the general linguistic study of aspect. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect, the morphology and the semantics of aspect, and structuralist and philosophical approaches. Dr Comrie draws his examples particularly from English and the Slavonic and Romance languages, but also from Arabic, Chinese, Welsh, Greek and a variety of others. This is the first study of aspect, considered as a general linguistic phenomenon. It is intended for students of individual languages as well as for students of linguistics.

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Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Definition of aspect	p. 1
Meaning and form	p. 6
Terminology	p. 11
Structure of the book	p. 13
General reading	p. 14
Perfective and imperfective	p. 16
Perfective	p. 16
Definition of perfectivity	p. 16
Perfectivity and other aspectual values	p. 21
Imperfective	p. 24
Habitual	p. 26
Habitual and other aspectual values	p. 30
Progressive	p. 32
Aspect and inherent meaning	p. 41
Punctual and durative	p. 41
Telic and atelic	p. 44
State and dynamic situation	p. 48
Perfect	p. 52
Types of perfect	p. 56
Perfect of result	p. 56
Experiential perfect	p. 58
Perfect of persistent situation	p. 60
Perfect of recent past	p. 60
Perfect and other aspects	p. 61
Prospective aspect	p. 64
Aspect and tense	p. 66
Perfective, present, and future	p. 66
Aspectual distinctions restricted to certain tenses	p. 71
Narrative Present	p. 73
Combined tense/aspect oppositions	p. 78
Aspect and time reference in tenseless languages	p. 82
Aspect and voice	p. 84
Formal expression of aspectual oppositions	p. 87
Morphology of aspect	p. 87
Prefixing in Balto-Slavonic, Georgian, and Hungarian	p. 88
Combined tense/aspect morphology	p. 94
Syntactic expressions of aspectual oppositions	p. 98
Locative expressions of aspectual oppositions	p. 98
Progressive and imperfective aspect	p. 98
Contingent state	p. 103
Direction and aspect	p. 106
Perfect as present plus past	p. 106
Perfect and inferential	p. 108
Markedness	p. 111
Markedness and semantics	p. 112
Markedness and morphology	p. 114
Neutralisation	p. 116
Markedness and frequency	p. 116
Markedness and context	p. 118
Degree of markedness	p. 122
Language guide	p. 123
Genetic classification of languages cited	p. 123
Aspectual systems of individual languages	p. 124
English	p. 124
Slavonic (Russian, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic)	p. 125
Romance (French, Spanish)	p. 126
Greek (Ancient Greek, Modern Greek)	p. 127
Chinese (Mandarin)	p. 128
Other languages (Turkish, ChiBemba)	p. 128
Recent approaches to aspect	p. 129
Localist theory of aspect	p. 129
Feature analysis	p. 130
Model-theoretic semantics	p. 132
References	p. 134
Index	p. 139
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