Aspectual classes and scales of change

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3988236
AutoresJohn Beaver (0000-0002-7040-9982, The University of Texas at Austin, autor de correspondencia), John Beavers (0009-0004-7922-0117)
Año2013
Volumen51
Número4
Fecha de publicación2013-01-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2013-0024
OpenAlexW2005462146
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas19

Standard models of aspectual classes focus on event decompositional or featural distinctions. However, such classifications often over- or under-generate, and do not necessarily capture the temporal properties aspectual classifications are based on. I develop a predictive model of aspectual classes based on theories of scalar change, taking two independently motivated properties of scales as key: (a) how specific the predicate is about the theme's final state on the scale and (b) the scale's mereological complexity. The resultant classification accommodates the standard Vendler dynamic classes, plus additional classes that have proved difficult for prior approaches, and makes novel predictions about the relation of aspectual class and argument realization

Argument (complex analysis) · Class (philosophy) · Focus (optics) · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Predicate (mathematical logic) · Programming language · Reciprocal · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation · Philosophy · Topic Modeling