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Achievements, Durativity and Scales
The goal of this dissertation is to provide a novel format semantic analysis of achievement predicates (in Vendler's sense) in the scope of the progressive. The focus is on the single-event progressive interpretations of two subtypes of achievements.--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Logos Verlag Berlin,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Aspectual classes; 1.1.1 Aspectual classifications; 1.1.2 Accomplishments and achievements; 1.1.3 Previous classifications of Vendler's achievements; 1.1.4 Ontology and terminology to be assumed; 1.2 Issues and proposal; 1.3 Structure of the dissertation; 2 THE CORE DATA AND A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT THEORIES; 2.1 Vendler's achievements in the scope of the progressive; 2.1.1 The progressive as an aspectual operator; 2.1.2 Readings of the progressive of Vendler's achievements; 2.2 Previous analyses of progressive achievements; 2.2.1 Charting existing approaches
- 2.2.2 Culminations entailing a change with temporal extent2.2.3 A lexicalization approach; 2.2.4 Type shifting approaches; 2.2.5 A non-partitive semantics for the progressive; 2.3 Scale-based frameworks; 2.3.1 Scales in formal semantic analysis; 2.3.2 Former scale-based frameworks for aspectual analysis; 3 THE POINT OF DEPARTURE FOR A NEW ACCOUNT OF PROGRESSIVE ACHIEVEMENTS; 3.1 Durativity; 3.1.1 The linguistic relevance of durativity; 3.1.2 The moment of change; 3.2 Existential presupposition of culminations; 3.2.1 Culminations as presupposition triggers
- 3.2.2 Extra soft presuppositions and the reverse direction3.3 The basic ingredients; 3.3.1 The semantic model; 3.3.2 Scales; 4 SLOW-MOTION INTERPRETATIONS; 4.1 The granularity parameter; 4.1.1 Granularity functions; 4.1.2 Higher-order granularity parameters; 4.2 Granularity-dependence and slow-motion readings; 4.2.1 Granularity-induced changes in durativity; 4.2.2 Granularity-relative temporal trace and durativity; 4.2.3 Constraining granularity and explaining slow-motion readings; 4.3 Implications of the granularity-based account; 4.3.1 Durativity and vagueness; 4.3.2 Endpoints and vagueness
- 4.3.3 Minimal parts and granularity5 PRELIMINARY PROCESS INTERPRETATIONS; 5.1 Scales of change; 5.1.1 The scale of change as a series of snapshot characterisations; 5.1.2 The mapping to the scale of change; 5.1.3 Predicate-level scales; 5.2 Scale structures by aspectual class; 5.2.1 Primary scale structures; 5.2.2 Differentiating types of Vendler's achievements; 5.2.3 Verbs and verb phrases; 5.3 The progressive; 5.3.1 Integrating a definition of the progressive into the framework; 5.3.2 The components of the progressive; 5.3.3 False positives and negatives and the role of the contrast set
- 5.4 Culminations and happenings in the progressive5.4.1 Deriving progressive culminations and happenings; 5.4.2 No partial completion; 5.4.3 Complements of aspectual verbs; 5.5 Imminency and other characteristics; 5.5.1 Implication of imminency; 5.5.2 Probability of success; 5.5.3 Imminency instead of stages; 5.5.4 Modification by agentive adverbials; 5.6 Beyond English; 5.6.1 The Russian imperfective and the Hindi perfective; 5.6.2 The restricted progressive in Hungarian; 6 CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; APPENDICES; A The mathematical concepts used in the dissertation; B The scalar trace