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Telicity and Durativity - A Study of Aspect in Dene Suline (Chipewyan) and German (Paperback)
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Telicity and Durativity - A Study of Aspect in Dene Suline (Chipewyan) and German (Paperback)
Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
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This book studies the linguistic representation of events by
examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics--
telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of natural
language. The study of events, and of event characteristics, is an
important testing ground for theories on the boundary between
extralinguistic and linguistic knowledge, and on the relation
between semantics and syntax. Telicity and durativity are notions
which have become increasingly influential in both the semantic and
the syntactic, i.e., grammaticalized, representation of events. The
book furthers the understanding of events through the comparison of
two genetically and typologically distinct languages, German and
Dene Suline (Chipewyan/Athapaskan), an indigenous language of
Northwestern Canada. It contains the first in-depth documentation
of the aspectual system of Dene Suline, and a careful analysis of
the aspectual behaviour of German particle verbs. A stringent
methodology considers semantic, pragmatic, and grammatical factors
in both languages. The data reveal that telicity and durativity
belong to profoundly different semantic and grammatical domains,
and that neither notion is grammaticalized universally. While both
notions are represented semantically in German as well as in Dene
Suline, telicity is grammaticalized only in the former and
durativity is grammaticalized only in the latter.
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