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Record Nr.

UNISA996328047803316

Autore

Dessì Schmid Sarah

Titolo

Aspectuality : An Onomasiological Model Applied to the Romance Languages / / Sarah Dessì Schmid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2019]

©2020

ISBN

3-11-056208-1

3-11-056410-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268)

Soggetti

Linguistics

Semantics & pragmatics

Grammar, syntax & morphology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface to English Edition -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Temporal Structuring of States of Affairs - Tense, Aspect and Aktionsart -- 2. The Aspectual Domain -- 3. Aspectuality as a Complex, Semantic, Universal Category. Theoretical and Methodological Foundations -- 4. The Model of Aspectuality as an Internal Temporal Structuring of States of Affairs -- 5. Combinations of the Dimensions of Aspectuality in the Situation Frame: the First Level of the Model Applied -- 6. The Second Level of the Aspectuality Model Applied -- 7. Closing Remarks -- Abbreviations -- References -- Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

This synchronic study presents a new onomasiological, frame-theoretical model for the description, classification and theoretical analysis of the cross-linguistic content category aspectuality. It deals specifically with those pieces of information, which, in their interplay, constitute the aspectual value of states of affairs. The focus is on Romance Languages, although the model can be applied just as well to other languages, in that it is underpinned by a principle grounded in a fundamental cognitive ability: the delimitation principle. Unlike traditional approaches, which generally have a semasiological



orientation and strictly adhere to a semantic differentiation between grammatical aspect and lexical aspect (Aktionsart), this study makes no such differentiation and understands these as merely different formal realisations of one and the same content category: aspectuality.