Abstract One of the distinctive features Slavic verbs is their aspectual morphology: typically each finite and non-finite form a verb has constant value: either perfective (PFV) or imperfective (IPFV). Nevertheless, in all languages, besides these prototypical with only one assigned value, there are also underspecified usually called biaspectual (BVs). As argued literature, on sentence level su...

In this paper we propose a unified account of ergativity in two unrelated languages with very different systems of marking grammatical relations. Both Chol (Mayan, Mexico) and Mẽbengokre (Jê, Brazil) have what appear to be aspect-based ergative splits. However, while in Mẽbengokre ergativity is found in verb stems which are formally nominal, ergativity in Chol is found in what can be shown to b...

Modern English has a small set of verbs that show variability between the inflections -ed and ­-t as preterite past participle morphemes (Peters et al., 2022; Quirk, 1970). Examples include: burn, spoil, spill, learn, dream, spell, smell, kneel, dwell, leap, lean While is thought to be more prevalent form in U.S. Englishes, -t widespread U.K. dialects (as related both perfect forms) (Ca...

except for personal clitics in past transitive forms, sorani kurdish has threeverbal prefixes; n?- for negation, be- for subjunctive, and (d)?- for imperfective. thisarticle starts with bringing forth the question of why subjunctive marker in this languagecannot appear with verbal negative or aspect prefixes while there is no problem with the co-occurence of negative and aspect prefixes.after p...

There are a handful of semantic concepts that serve an organizing function within the grammar. The over-arching goal of this research program is to examine the conceptual origins of these concepts (cf. Wagner & Lakusta, in press): To what extent is the infant mind specially prepared to acquire the natural semantics of language? One of these core concepts is Aspect, and the specific goal of this...

This study investigated whether or not the temporal information encoded in aspectual morphemes can be used immediately by young children to facilitate event recognition during online sentence comprehension. We focused on the contrast between two grammatical aspectual morphemes in Mandarin Chinese, the perfective morpheme -le and the (imperfective) durative morpheme -zhe. The perfective morpheme...

Readers actively construct representational models of meaning when reading text, and they do so by drawing on a range of kinds of information, from the specifi c linguistic forms of the sentences to knowledge about how the world works (Ferretti, Kutas, & McRae, 2007 ; Madden & Zwaan, 2003 ). The present set of studies focused on how grammatical aspect is integrated into a situation model and ho...

Throughout this paper, the semantic domain under scrutiny will be designated by the acronym ATAM (i.e., Actionality / Temporality / Aspect / Modality). This involves a modification of the usual practice, where TAM (or TMA) is routinely used. As will soon become clear, however, the actionality category cannot be neglected, considering its role in the semantics and acquisition of tense and aspect...

MAGEAD is a morphological analyzer and generator for the Arabic language family, by which we mean both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and the spoken dialects. MAGEAD explicitly addresses the need for processing the morphology of the dialects as well. Furthermore, MAGEAD can model both phonology and orthography explicitly. In this paper, we present in detail the morphophonemic and the orthographic...

Предложена этимология показателя -qxiə , который входит в состав нескольких морфологически неэлементарных глагольных грамматических показателей тундрового ненецкого языка. По крайней мере, для некоторых таких форм последние годы устоявшимися терминами являются «пробабилитатив» или «пробабилитив». Пробабилитив маркирует эпистемическую оценку, основанием которой служат общие знания о мире. Этот п...