Aspectual classes and scales of change

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3988236
AutoresJohn Beaver (0000-0002-7040-9982, The University of Texas at Austin, autor correspondente), John Beavers (0009-0004-7922-0117)
Ano2013
Volume51
Fascículo4
Data de publicação2013-01-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2013-0024
OpenAlexW2005462146
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências 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