{"product_id":"a-theory-of-aspectuality-the-interaction-between-temporal-and-atemporal-structure-paperback-9780521564526","title":"A Theory of Aspectuality; The Interaction between Temporal and Atemporal Structure (Paperback) 9780521564526","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Theory of Aspectuality\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Interaction between Temporal and Atemporal Structure\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHenk Verkuyl presents a theory about aspectual properties of sentences in natural languages.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHenk J. Verkuyl (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521564526, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 30 May 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e412 pages, 46 b\/w illus.  12 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.4 x 2.7 cm, 0.675 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e' … thoroughly and convincingly argued … [it] deserves to be on the reading list of every semanticist.' Journal of Linguistics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSentences may pertain to states or processes or events. They may express duration, frequency, habituality, and many other forms of temporality. How do they do this? It is the aspectual properties of sentences in natural languages which allow the user to express a temporal structure, and Henk Verkuyl presents a unified formal system to account for them. He explains aspectuality in terms of the opposition between terminative aspect and durative aspect, and describes the way in which terminative aspect is compositionally formed on the basis of semantic information expressed by different syntactic elements, in particular the verb and its arguments. The aim is to determine which semantic conditions make a sentence terminative; but at least ten different forms of durative aspectuality are also treated. All are drawn into a theory which can account for both terminative and durative aspectuality together. A Theory of Aspectuality draws together into a coherent whole the author's thinking on the subject over the last twenty years, and will interest all those working on aspect and the semantics of noun phrases. It promises to be a major new contribution to our understanding of the subject.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Issues of Compositionality: 1. The plus-principle\u003cbr\u003e 2. Aspectual classes and aspectual composition\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Noun Phrase Structure: 3. The tools of generalised quantification\u003cbr\u003e 4. In search of SQA\u003cbr\u003e 5. Numerals and quantifiers: one level up\u003cbr\u003e 6. Some problems of prenominal NP structure\u003cbr\u003e 7. Determiner structure\u003cbr\u003e 8. Some explorative issues\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Temporal Structure: 9. Homogeneity\u003cbr\u003e 10. Localism and additive structure\u003cbr\u003e 11. Event semantics and aspect construal\u003cbr\u003e 12. Aspect and perspective\u003cbr\u003e 13. Event construal\u003cbr\u003e 14. Testing the plus-principle\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Linguistics%20%5BCF%5D%22\"\u003eCF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006020800792,"sku":"9780521564526","price":47.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521564526_018c8d5f-2fd1-408d-b828-584e12edb748.gif?v=1691369820","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-theory-of-aspectuality-the-interaction-between-temporal-and-atemporal-structure-paperback-9780521564526","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}