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This paper aims to analyze the relationship between. perfectivisation and secondary imperfectivisation in Czech. Recent data show for loan verbs a strong tendency, after a short phase of biaspectualism, towards the creation of aspectual pairs through perfectivisation, e.g. bukovat - zabukovat (to book). This step does not necessarily conclude the process, since secondary imperfectives like zabukovávat are also frequent. This development is in opposition to the tendency towards the elimination of secondary imperfectives, which characterized the historical evolution of the Czech language (Šlosar 1981).

Czech language --- verbal aspect --- word formation

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A new theory of the syntax-semantics interface that relies on hierarchical orderings in language, with the English auxiliary system as its empirical ground. Research in syntax has found that there is a hierarchical ordering of projections within the verb phrase across languages (although researchers differ with respect to how fine grained they assume the hierarchy to be). In Situations and Syntactic Structures , Gillian Ramchand explores the hierarchy of the verb phrase from a semantic perspective, attempting to derive it from semantically sorted zones in the compositional semantics. The empirical ground is the auxiliary ordering found in the grammar of English. The "situation" in the title refers to the semanticists' notion of eventuality that is the central element of the ontology of the formal semantics of verbal meaning. Ramchand discusses the semantic notion of situations in relation to the hierarchical ordering evidenced in syntactic structures and tries to bridge semantic and syntactic ontologies. She proposes and formalizes a new theory of semantic zones, and presents an explicitly semantic and morphological analysis of all the auxiliary constructions of English that derive their rigid order of composition without recourse to lexical item-specific ordering statements.

Grammar --- English language --- Syntax --- Auxiliary verbs --- Aspect --- Verbal aspect --- Verb --- Syntax. --- Auxiliary verbs. --- Aspect. --- Germanic languages --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General

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This book offers a fine-grained analysis of the most common ingressive and egressive verbs in present-day English in terms of the semantic-pragmatic and cognitive factors responsible for their various structural representations. It draws upon the fundamental assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics, according to which grammar is symbolic and conceptually motivated, and focuses in particular on the ability of these predicates to be integrated into constructions as a result of metonymic and metaphoric processes, which impose a well-defined set of constraints. The book supports its analysis and findi

Englisch. --- Ingressiv. --- Pragmatik. --- Resultativ. --- Semantik. --- English language --- Aspect. --- Verb. --- Grammar, Generative. --- Generative grammar --- Conjugation --- Periphrastic verbs --- Verb phrase --- Verbal aspect --- Verb --- Germanic languages

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The aspectual interpretation of sentences is constrained by the truth conditions predicates impose on points of times or time intervals. Using data from English, Vendler (1967) established a classification of four verb types on these grounds, that has been widely accepted in linguistic theory. Various researchers, among them Dowty (1979) for English and Ehrich (1992) for German, have proposed finer grained classifications. This paper is very much in the spirit of these proposals. Our aim is a detailed model of the compositional lexical semantics of predicates that models the contrasts of verba

Semantics, Comparative. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Categorial grammar. --- Verb --- Comparative semantics --- Grammar, Categorial --- Aspect (Linguistics) --- Verb. --- Aspect. --- Verb phrase --- Verbals --- Reflexives --- Semantics --- Verbal aspect --- Temporal constructions --- Linguistics --- Philology

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If there's a domain in linguistics which complexity calls for ever further research, it's clearly that of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, often referred to as 'TAME'. The reason for which these domains of investigation have been connected so tightly as to deserve a common label is that their actual intertwining is so dense that one can hardly measure their effects purely individually, without regard to the other notions of the spectrum. On the other hand, despite their imbrications, tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality remain - needless to say - separate theoretical entities. The papers gathered in this volume cover a range of issues and a variety of methods that help delineate, each in its way, new perspectives on this broad domain.

Evidentials (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Modality (Linguistics) --- Aspect --- Tense --- Linguistics --- Tense (Grammar) --- Aspect (Linguistics) --- Evidentiality (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Temporal constructions --- Verbal aspect --- Verb --- Grammar --- Comparative linguistics --- Philology