Recent activity in the theory of aspect : accomplishments, achievements, or just non-progressive state?
- There is an inexhaustible stream of theoretical work on aspect. More than 20 major books of a gelteral nature have come out during the past few years, not to mention the vast amount of shorter articles. The theoretical proposals found in these works are often radically different. What is the state of the art in this highly controversial area? To what extent can the "ordinary working linguist" profit from the flood of theoretical proposals? This paper started out as a review article on five recent books on aspect. These reviews are incorporated here into a general assessment of contemporary aspect theories. We will classify different approaches to aspect and try to sort out their theoretical primitives. The paper concludes wich a brief summary pointing out the most urgent desiderata for a typologically adequate approach to aspect.
| Author: | Hans-Jürgen SasseGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1095333 |
| ISSN: | 1430-0532 |
| ISSN: | 1613-415X |
| Parent Title (English): | Linguistic typology |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2007/11/26 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2002 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2007/11/26 |
| Tag: | Aktionsart; Aspekt Aktionsart; aspect |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Page Number: | 73 |
| First Page: | 199 |
| Last Page: | 271 |
| Note: | Signatur: Zs 22671 HM 5: G 438 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 35998276X |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
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| Licence (German): |  Archivex. zur Lesesaalplatznutzung § 52b UrhG |
