In Danish aspectual differences are expressed by certain verbal constructions. Such aspectual constructions have not received much attention in the Danish literature, but cf. Diderichsen (1946, p. 156), Hansen (1967, vol. 3, pp. 30–31), Jensen (1985, p. 113), Brandt (1992) and Jørgensen (2001). (1) is an example of such an aspectual construction which is used to express imperfective aspect, and...

This paper revisits the aspectual under-extension found in children’s production data, in which children preferentially link telic predicates with perfective/past morphology and atelic predicates with imperfective/present morphology. I argue that these aspectual groupings reflect a deep property of linguistic/conceptual organization and are manifested in various ways throughout the lifespan. Th...

In the rst part of the paper, I present a new treatment of the imperfective paradox (Dowty 1979) for the restricted case of trajectory-of-motion events. This treatment extends and re-nes those of Moens and Steedman (1988) and Jackendoo (1991). In the second part, I describe an implemented algorithm based on this treatment which determines whether a speciied sequence of such events is or is not ...

this study compares and contrasts tense and inherent aspect in english and persian lan-guage from a semantic and syntactic point of view. the aspectual verb system in both english and persian are semantically interpreted alike. however, in persian a group of stative verbs are grammaticalized by the imperfective obligatory morpheme mi-, while in english all sta-tive verbs perfective. furthermore...

Abstract This article examines two types of lexical effects in the voice system Kanakanavu, an Austronesian language Taiwan. The first concerns a well-attested phenomenon literature: interactions between semantic transitivity verbs and their ability (or lack thereof) to undergo alternation. second that is typologically areally rare western context – differential agent marking. pronominal Kanaka...

Some studies on the L1 acquisition of aspect in various child languages have discovered that imperfective is acquired later than perfective aspect, whereas others find early adult-like performance. A variety explanations has been advanced, particularly problems (i) with semantics combination telic predicates, (ii) inferring intended temporal antecedent a discourse, and (iii) reasoning about an ...

Linguistic analyses of Mandarin Chinese and English have detailed the differences between the two languages in terms of the devices each makes available for expressing distinctions in the temporal contouring of events — verb aspect and Aktionsart. In this study, adult native speakers of each language were shown a cartoon, a movie, or a series of short action sequences and then videotaped talkin...