conférence MAHAPATRA lundi 12/2 14h30

[Bridget Copley]

Le programme "Temporalité: Typologie et Acquisition" (temptypac) de la
Fédération "Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques" du CNRS a le
plaisir d'annoncer un exposé:


"The Parameter of Aspect for Odia"

Bibhuti Bhushan Mahapatra

Date : lundi 29 janvier 2007
Lieu : Université Paris 8, Bâtiment D, Salle 143, 93200 Saint-Denis
Heure: 14h30-16h30


A standard assumption in the study of aspect is that situation types 
(aktionsarts) are internal to the lexical  meaning of the predicate. 
However, contrary to such an assumption, Odia marks situation types 
(aktionsarts)  morphologically, with a closed set of auxiliaries. So far 
as viewpoint aspects are concerned, Odia grammatically  marks the 
imperfective; it shows a temporal focus marker, with a neutral 
viewpoint; but, it does not show a  perfective viewpoint marker. The 
present analysis shows that perfectivity in Odia is marked by the 
sequence of  an eventive verb and a copular auxiliary; that is, when an 
event is followed by a state. The present analysis  proposes that if 
events are juxtaposed they are either in a temporal sequence or they are 
concomitant. Their being  in a sequence presupposes their event 
boundaries to be discrete, hence the perfectivity of one with respect to 
the  other. If they are concomitant, they overlap; and one has the 
manner function for the other. The language marks  the concomitance of 
events by reduplicating one of the verbs.  Theoretically, the situation 
types are universal for their semantic values do not change from 
language to  language. However, Smith (1997: 2) assumes that viewpoint 
categories have a parameterized structure in the  sense that they may 
deviate from their universal content in a particular language. Thus, 
parametric differences  between languages are tuned to viewpoint 
aspects. As per Smith (op. cit.), the universal content of the viewpoint 
  aspects are as follows:

Perfective:    “focuses on the situation as a whole”
Imperfective  “focuses on part of a situation”
Neutral:    “provides a flexible point of view”

However,  Odia  facts  suggest  that  the  morpheme  responsible  for 
imperfective  viewpoint  has  the  underlying function [+Dynamic] and 
triggers the binary feature distinction [±Dynamic]; examined from the 
same  perspective  the  English  imperfective  has  the  underlying 
function  [-Telic]  and  triggers  the  binary  feature  distinction 
[±Telic]. Assuming that underlying functions tend to be universal, 
universally the grammatical  aspects, labelled as viewpoints, trigger 
the binary features either [±Dynamic] or [±Telic] as the primary 
aspectual  distinction. By choosing one of the binary features as the 
primary aspectual distinction, a language sets the  aspectual parameter 
for its grammatical aspect.


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