Aspectual Grammar and Past Time Reference
Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
By Laura A. Michaelis, associate professor of linguistics
Routledge
This study presents a semantic framework for analyzing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions.
In this theory, grammatical constructions, like words, are conventionalized form-meaning pairs, which are best described not only with respect to their intrinsic semantic values, but also with respect to the functional oppositions in which they participate.
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Date of publication: Sept. 12, 2012
By Laura A. Michaelis, associate professor of linguistics
Routledge
This study presents a semantic framework for analyzing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions.
In this theory, grammatical constructions, like words, are conventionalized form-meaning pairs, which are best described not only with respect to their intrinsic semantic values, but also with respect to the functional oppositions in which they participate.
See publication on Amazon.com
Date of publication: Sept. 12, 2012