Tense and Aspect
From Semantics to Morphosyntax
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 1997
336 pages
978-0-19-535788-2 (ISBN)
Description
The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework. They compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones.
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Alessandra Giorgi is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Bergamo, Italy.
Fabio Pianesi is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Technology and Scientific Research (IRST) in Trento, Italy.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Symbols
- Introduction
- 1. The Syntactic and Semantic Background
- 1.1. The syntactic framework
- 1.1.1. The Split-Infl hypothesis
- 1.1.2. Chomsky's minimalist approach
- 1.1.3. A few words on phrase structure
- 1.1.4. Syncretic categories and the Feature Scattering Principle
- 1.2. The semantic representation
- 1.2.1. Tenses as sentential operators
- 1.2.2. Temporal entities
- 1.2.3. Events
- 2. On the Italian, Latin, and Portuguese Temporal Systems
- 2.1. The temporal projection
- 2.2. The Italian system
- 2.3. The Latin system
- 2.4. The Portuguese system
- 2.5. On nominative case assignment
- Appendix: On the etymology of the Latin pluperfect and future perfect
- 3. The Present Perfect in Germanic and Romance
- 3.1. The morphosyntactic properties of the Germanic verbal systems
- 3.1.1. The morphosyntax of the English verbal system
- 3.1.2. Other Germanic languages
- 3.1.3. The position of negation
- 3.1.4. English modals again
- 3.1.5. On the present perfect puzzle
- 3.1.6. The simple past and the present perfect in Italian
- 3.2. The semantics of the present perfect
- 3.2.1. On the notion of consequent state
- 3.2.2. Some tentative speculations on the semantics of the present perfect and the simple past
- 3.2.3. A revision of the notion of consequent state
- 3.2.4. A compositional semantics for synthetic and analytic perfects
- 3.2.5. On the argumental status of temporal adverbials
- 3.2.6. The present perfect in English and MSc and temporal localizations
- 3.2.7. Toward an account of the present perfect puzzle
- 3.3. More on the present perfect in Italian-like languages
- 3.3.1. A note on Icelandic
- 3.3.2. The interpretation of the present perfect in Spanish and Catalon
- 3.3.3. The analysis of the Portuguese periphrastic present perfect
- 3.4. Some observations on the temporal and aspectual properties of the Italian present perfect
- Appendix: The present perfect in Catanese and Vicentino
- 4. The Present and Imperfect in Germanic and Romance
- 4.1. The present tense
- 4.1.1. Crosslinguistic evidence
- 4.1.2. The structure of events
- 4.1.3. Punctuality and the properties of the speech event
- 4.1.4. A revised notion of punctuality
- 4.1.5. The present tense and perfectivity
- 4.2. On the present-in-the-past interpretation of embedded events in Germanic and Romance
- 4.2.1. The Italian imperfect: a characterisation
- 4.2.2. Comparative evidence
- 5. On the Semantics and Morphosyntax of the Italian Subjunctive
- 5.1 Toward a semantics of the subjunctive
- 5.1.1. The data
- 5.1.2. Previous accounts
- 5.1.3. Mood and modality
- 5.1.4. Mood in subordinate clauses
- 5.1.5. Factive predicates
- 5.1.6. Dream and its companions
- 5.1.7. Intralinguistic variations in mood choice
- 5.1.8. Other factors affecting mood choice
- 5.1.9. Concluding remarks
- 5.2. The morphosyntax of the Italian subjunctive
- 5.2.1. Syncretic categories and the Feature Scattering Principle
- 5.2.2. Subject-Verb inversion phenomena in Italian
- 5.2.3. The V-to-C solution
- 5.2.4. The syncretic category solution
- 5.2.5. Extraction from subjunctive clauses
- 5.2.6. Conclusions
- Appendix: Conditionals and counterfactuals
- 6. The Double Accessibility Reading in Italian and English
- 6.1. The Double Accessibility Reading
- 6.2. The Italian data
- 6.3. The English data
- 6.4. Conclusions
- References
- Author Index
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- Subject Index
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