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[Juergen Bohnemeyer]

Dear Sergey – Becker & Malchukov (2022) argue that the Vendler classes form a scale (the ‘actionality hierarchy’) in terms of their probability of occurring with imperfective vs. perfective viewpoints. This digests a lot of older literature, including Bohnemeyer & Swift (2004), which Becker & Malchukov build on and supersede. Plus they present a crosslinguistic corpus study in support of their hypothesis.

(Credit due: I became aware of Becker & Malchukov’s paper thanks to Martin Haspelmath’s Diversity Linguistics Seminar at the University of Leipzig.)

Another long-running theme in this area is the question of the contributions of lexicon, syntax, and pragmatics to lexical-aspectual properties. Bohnemeyer (2004) (somewhat en passant) sketches an account of the interactions (synthesizing a lot of the literature up to that point).

HTH! – Juergen

Becker, L. & A. Malchukov. (2022). Semantic maps and typological hierarchies: Evidence for the actionality hierarchy. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 41(1): 31-66.

Bohnemeyer, J. (2004). Split intransitivity, linking, and lexical representation: The case of Yukatek Maya. Linguistics 42(1): 67-107.

Bohnemeyer, J. & M. Swift. (2004). Event realization and default aspect. Linguistics and Philosophy 27(3): 263–296.

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From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Sergey Loesov <sergeloesov at gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 11:57
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Dear colleagues,

Could you please suggest to me recent reference literature on the "Vendlerian" verbal actionality classes?

Best regards,

Sergey
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