R: perfect(s)

[Paolo Ramat]

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Bjoern Wiemer <Bjoern.Wiemer at UNI-KONSTANZ.DE>
A: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG <LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Data: venerdì 19 maggio 2000 18.01
Oggetto: perfect(s)


>Dear ALT-members and readers of this list,
>
>in the end of March I lanced a question concerning semantic maps of
>perfect(s) in the world's languages. In particular, I asked whether there
>have been any refinements of what at one time was proposed by Lloyd
>Anderson. Some people wrote to me afterwards. I'm very sorry that I haven't
>managed to let the "community" my requests was directed to know what kinds
>of reply I have received, the reasons for this delay being totally
>unlinguistic and unscientific. So I hope you won't mind if I now send you
>the data I have received.
>        Actually, nobody could remember that there have been any such
>refinements since Anderson's paper. But a couple of persons indicated to me
>that, of course, the notion of perfect has been investigated much since
>then, in particular, its relationship to the resultative, diathesis, aspect
>and mood/modality has been elaborated. Here are two contributions I have
>been made attention of:
>
>1. Bisang und Sonaiya 1997. Perfect and beyond, from pragmatic
>relevance to Perfect: The Chinese sentence particle le and Yoruba ti. In:
>Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 50.2, 143 - 158.
>
>2. Drossard, Werner (1991): "SITUIERUNG (Aspektualität, Modalität,
>Temporalität) und PARTIZIPATION mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der
>KASUSMARKIERUNG", in: Drossard, Werner; Haase, Martin, Studien zur
>SITUIERUNG. Aspektualität, Modalität, Temporalität, Köln: Inst. f.
>Sprachwiss., Univ. zu Köln (=Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts
>(AKUP) 83), 1-24.
>
>Furthermore, as probably most of you anyway know, there is a
EUROTYPE-volume
>forthcoming, whose contents have been made accessible on a homepage in
>Stockholm:
>3. http://www.ling.su.se/staff/oesten/eurotyp/Contents.htm
>        There is a whole chapter with several papers on the perfect.
>
>I can add some bibliographic notes by myself. First of all:
>4. TRK: Nedjalkov, V.P. (Red.) 1983. Tipologija rezultativnych konstrukcij
>(rezultativ, stativ, passiv, perfekt). Leningrad.
>        and its English translation (1988; Benjamins).
>
>To my mind, among the best (up to date) contributions are also still:
>5. Dahl, Ö. 1985. Tense and Aspect Systems. London-New York. (chapter on
>Perfect)
>6. Comrie, B. 1981. On Reichenbach's Approach to Tense. In: Papers from the
>Seventeenth Regional Meeting of the CLS. ed, by R.A. Hendrick et al.
>Chicago, 24-30.
>7. Breu, W. 1988. Resultativität, Perfekt und die Gliederung der
>Aspektdimension. In: Raecke, J. (Hrsg.): Slavistische Linguistik 1987.
>München, 42-74.
>
>And a very concise, but well written and insightful paper on the English
and
>Lithuanian perfect:
>8. Geniusiene, E.: Sopostavitelnyj analiz perfektnyx form v anglijskom i
>litovskom jazykax. In: V.N. Jarceva (otv. red.): Sopostavitelnaja
>lingvistika i obuchenie nerodnomu jazyku. Moskva: Nauka, 128-137.
>
>There is also a monograph on the Modern Greek system basing on a
typological
>oriented theory of interaction between the lexical semantics (of verbs) and
>aspect operators:
>9. Leluda-Voß, Ch. 1997. Die Perfekterfassung und das neugriechische
>Perfekt. Frankfurt/M. etc. (Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XXI:
>Linguistik. 181.)
>
>See also a couple of contributions in the volume (based on the same theory
>as in 9):
>10. Breu, W. (Hg.) 2000: Probleme der Interaktion von Lexik und Aspekt
>(ILA). Tuebingen: Niemeyer. (= Linguistische Arbeiten 412.)
>
>Thanks agian to those who replied!
>        With best regards,
>Bjoern Wiemer.
>
>
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>
>Dr. Bjoern Wiemer
>Universitaet Konstanz
>FB Sprachwissenschaft - Slavistik
>Postfach 55 60 - D 179
>D- 78457 Konstanz
>
>e-mail: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de
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Bibliogr. addendum:
Paolo Di Giovine, Studio sul perfetto indoeuropeo. I: La funzione originaria
del perfetto studiata nella documentazione delle lingue storiche. Roma 1990.
Dip.to di Studi Glottoantropologici dell'Univers. 'La Sapienza'. (Bibliot.
di ricerche linguistiche e filologiche, nr. 26)