A typology of partitive aspectual operators
This paper proposes a typology of partitive aspectual operators based on whether an operator: (i) requires (non-)proper event parts in the extension of the VP that it combines with and (ii) imposes a ‘maximal stage requirement’, which is satisfied when a VP-event culminates or ceases to develop furt...
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| description | This paper proposes a typology of partitive aspectual operators based on whether an operator: (i) requires (non-)proper event parts in the extension of the VP that it combines with and (ii) imposes a ‘maximal stage requirement’, which is satisfied when a VP-event culminates or ceases to develop further in the actual world. I provide evidence for such a typology by looking at the Russian imperfective, the Hindi perfective and the English progressive. I argue that each of these languages has a partitive, aspectual operator that fills a distinct cell in the proposed typology. The typology is important because it allows us to dispense with Smith’s (The parameter of aspect. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1991) notion of ‘neutral aspect’ used to classify aspectual forms as having properties of both the perfective and the imperfective. In particular, the typology reveals that an operator is perfective if it requires a maximal stage of an event in the extension of the VP that it combines with; an operator is imperfective if it requires a stage of an event in the extension of the VP that it combines with, but this stage need not be maximal. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:1cf44d3d-71a2-4304-9cb2-da60cf7fb7322023-07-04T13:30:38ZA typology of partitive aspectual operatorsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:1cf44d3d-71a2-4304-9cb2-da60cf7fb732EnglishSymplectic ElementsSpringer Nature2014Altshuler, DThis paper proposes a typology of partitive aspectual operators based on whether an operator: (i) requires (non-)proper event parts in the extension of the VP that it combines with and (ii) imposes a ‘maximal stage requirement’, which is satisfied when a VP-event culminates or ceases to develop further in the actual world. I provide evidence for such a typology by looking at the Russian imperfective, the Hindi perfective and the English progressive. I argue that each of these languages has a partitive, aspectual operator that fills a distinct cell in the proposed typology. The typology is important because it allows us to dispense with Smith’s (The parameter of aspect. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1991) notion of ‘neutral aspect’ used to classify aspectual forms as having properties of both the perfective and the imperfective. In particular, the typology reveals that an operator is perfective if it requires a maximal stage of an event in the extension of the VP that it combines with; an operator is imperfective if it requires a stage of an event in the extension of the VP that it combines with, but this stage need not be maximal. |
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