8.1011, Books: Semantics

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-1011. Fri Jul 4 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.1011, Books: Semantics

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     * The PARAMETER OF ASPECT  (second edition)
     by Carlota S. Smith, Department of Linguistics, University of
Texas

The Parameter of Aspect presents a unified theory of aspect
within Universal Grammar.  It provides an unusual combination of
syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic approaches to a single domain, and
gives detailed linguistic analysis of five languages with very
different aspectual systems: English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Navajo
and Russian.

     Extensive discussion of the linguistic evidence is complemented
by a formal semantic treatment in the framework of Discourse
Representation Theory, with an explicit procedure for computing
aspectual meaning from syntactic surface structure.

     Among the theoretical innovations is a principled account of the
interaction between viewpoint (perfective, imperfective) and situation
type (state, event); a level of pragmatic analysis at which
contrastive and inferred meanings are stated; a default analysis of
sentences that are neither perfective nor imperfective in viewpoint.

     1997   349 pp.  Hardbound   ISBN 0-7923-4657-2     $175.00


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