Author | Freed, Alice F. author |
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Title | The Semantics of English Aspectual Complementation [electronic resource] / by Alice F. Freed |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1979 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9475-1 |
Descript | X, 173 p. online resource |
I. Methodology and Theoretical Assumptions -- 1.1. Theoretical Framework -- 1.2. Methods of Analysis: Presupposition and Consequence -- 1.3. Aspect -- 1.4. The Corpus -- II. Aspectualizers and Events -- 2.1. Why an Event Analysis -- 2.2. The Philosophical Treatment of Events -- 2.3. A Temporal Analysis of Events -- 2.4. Other Philosophical Categories -- III. Events and Aspectual Verb-Types: Activities, Accomplishments, Achievements, States, and Series -- 3.1. Events and Aspectual Verb-types -- 3.2. Distinguishing Among Activities, Accomplishments, Achievements, States, and Series -- IV. A Detailed Characterization of Aspectualizers โ I: Begin and Start Compared -- 4.1. Descriptive Approach: Syntactic and Semantic Properties -- 4.2. Begin and Start -- V. A Detailed Characterization of Aspectualizers โ II: Continue, Keep, Resume, and Repeat Compared -- 5.1. Keep and Continue compared -- 5.2. Resume -- 5.3. Repeat -- VI. A Detailed Characterization of Aspectualizers โ III: Stop, Quit, and Cease Compared -- 6.1. Stop and Quit Compared -- 6.2. Stop and Cease -- VII. A Detailed Characterization of Aspectualizers โ IV: Finish, End, and Complete Compared -- 7.1. Finish and End Compared -- 7.2. Finish and Complete -- VIII. A Summary of the Syntactic and Semantic Characteristics of Aspectualizers -- 8.1. The Syntactic Form of the Complements -- 8.2. to V and V-ing Compared -- 8.3. Presuppositions, Consequences, and Co-occurrences with Different Aspectual Verb-types -- 8.4. Other Properties of Aspectualizers Summarized -- Table I: Aspectualizers with Noun Objects -- Table II: Presuppositions and Consequences of Aspectualizers -- Table III: Aspectualizers with Different Complement Verb-types -- Data Sources -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects