Erteschik-Shir, Nomi & Rapoport, Tova (Eds.) (2005). The syntax of aspect: Deriving thematic and aspectual interpretation

Variation , aspectual interpretation and

A widely adopted classification of aspectual type is that based on Vendler’s (1967) four-way aspectual classification of verbs into accomplishments, achievements, activities and statives. Moreover, some have assumed, either explicitly or implicitly, that this aspectual classification is universal (see, for instance, Borer 2005, Krifka 1992, Filip 1999). That is, each language has predicates tha...

Aspect, Aspectual Class, and the Temporal Structure of Narrative

This paper consists of two parts. The first part discusses commonsense knowledge about events as manifested in language. Three kinds of knowledge are identified: compositional, durational, and aspectual. Compositional knowledge concerns internal structuring of events into preparatory, initial, main (the body), final, and resulting stages. Durational knowledge concerns durational relations betwe...

Aspect and the Syntax of Noun Phrases

Aspect and the Syntax of Argument Structure

We use the term " argument structure " to refer to the syntactic configuration projected by a lexical item. It is the system of structural relations holding between heads (nuclei) and their arguments within the syntactic structures projected by nuclear items. While a lexical entry is more than this, of course, argument structure in the sense intended here is nothing other than this. Argument st...

Aspect-Oriented Programming with Aspectual Methods

We use Gregor Kiczales' de nition of an aspect: a modular unit of crosscutting implementation and present a useful kind of aspect-oriented programming in Java. By focussing on a limited, but commonly occuring set of aspects, we are able to provide the Java library DJ that allows us to write aspectual methods whose ad-hoc implementation cuts across several classes. An aspectual method is evaluat...