The current study investigates variation in the marking of two aspectual subcategories imperfective Bahamian English. First, it looks into variable auxiliary be use progressive and future constructions, that is, between full, contracted zero non-past V-ing environments related contexts. Second, paper examines application preverbal does/is/’s habitual environments. variables were selected to rep...

This paper reports reaction time studies on aspect processing, and highlights that aspectual asymmetries (perfective vs. imperfective facilitation) in terms of reaction time is dependent on verb types.

This study investigated the acquisition of grammatical aspect by Iranian EFL learners. The main question addressed in this study was whether Iranian EFL learners could distinguish conditions under which they must use either the perfective aspect  or imperfective aspect. A group of 110 adult, Persian-Speaking learners of English both at BA and MA levels Took a Michigan test based on which they w...

In the Type A Imperfective paradigm of Tigrinya (Ethio-Semitic), unsuffixed verbs have a geminate medial consonant (yÁ-s√bbÁr), while verbs with a subject or object suffix do not have gemination (yÁ-s√br-u). This alternation has been analyzed from various points of view. A fundamental question is whether the more basic stem-form has gemination (Berhane 1991, Rose 1993) or not (Harris 1987, Dena...

Thai has imperfective aspectual morphemes that are not obligatory in usage, whereas English has obligatory grammaticized imperfective aspectual marking on the verb. Furthermore, Thai has verb final deictic-path verbs that form a closed class set. The current study investigated if obligatoriness of these grammatical categories in Thai and English affects the expression of co-occurring temporal e...

We present a manually constructed seed lexicon encoding the inferential profiles of French event selecting predicates across different uses. The inferential profile (Karttunen, 1971a) of a verb is designed to capture the inferences triggered by the use of this verb in context. It reflects the influence of the clause-embedding verb on the factuality of the event described by the embedded clause....

Much attention in recent Korean linguistics literature has been paid to the imperfective puzzle surrounding the periphrastic marker -ko iss-. This marker corresponds to English BE + -ing in a way but, unlike its English counterpart, -ko (KO) is a connective meaning „and‟, and iss(ISS) literally means „exist‟, though it is often glossed as BE or Copular in the literature. The imperfective puzzle...

How does language influence the emotions and actions of large audiences? Functionally, emotions help address environmental uncertainty by constraining the body to support adaptive responses and social coordination. We propose emotions provide a similar function in language processing by constraining the mental simulation of language content to facilitate comprehension, and to foster alignment o...

This comprehension study on aspectual form-to-meaning correspondences set out to see if the presence of aspect as morphological category in a language makes the acquisition of aspectual form-meaning pairs relatively easy in comparison to a language that lacks such an aspect category. In Polish, aspect is a grammatical category—all verbs are marked as perfective or imperfective—and tense is mark...