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The Semantics of English Aspectual Complementation (Hardcover, 1979 ed.)
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The Semantics of English Aspectual Complementation (Hardcover, 1979 ed.)
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 8
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Complementation has received a great deal of attention in the past
fifteen to twenty years; various approcahes have been used to study
it and different groups of complement-taking verbs have been
examined. The approach taken here employs analytic techniques which
have not been systematically applied before to this group of
temporal aspectual verbs. In other works which have concentrated on
these same verbs (perlmutter, 1968, 1970 and Newmeyer, 1969a,
1969b) few insights about the semantic properties of the verbs are
formalized. In the present study, the various verbs and their
complement structures as they appear in surface forms are
considered for their associated presuppositions and consequences
(entailments). The notions of presup position and consequence are
defmed and used so as to take conversational interaction into
consideration. This adds considerably to the information that can
be obtained about the verbs in question. Furthermore, the analysis
of these temporal aspectual verbs leads to a description of their
complement structures in terms of 'events', a semantic category
found to appropriately characterize the quality of most of these
structures. In this analysis, events are described as consisting of
several different temporal segments; thus the sentences contained
in the complements of these verbs are described as naming events,
each containing one or more of several possible temporal segments.
The aspectualizers in tum, act as referentials, each referring to
one or another of the event-segments named in their complements."
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