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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