The communicative contexts of grammatical aspect use in English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20368442 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Percy Ibbotson (0000-0001-8346-0616, Max Planck Society, corresponding author), Elena Lieven (0000-0002-2270-8910, Max Planck Society), M Tomasello (0000-0002-1649-088X, Max Planck Society) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 705-723 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000913000135 |
| PMID | 23714767 |
| OpenAlex | W2051147454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 32 |
In many of the world's languages grammatical aspect is used to indicate how events unfold over time. In English, activities that are ongoing can be distinguished from those that are completed using the morphological marker - ing . Using naturalistic observations of two children in their third year of life, we quantify the availability and reliability of the imperfective form in the communicative context of the child performing actions. On average, 30% of verbal descriptions refer to child actions that are grounded in the here-and-now. Of these utterances, there are two features of the communicative context that reliably map onto the functions of the imperfective, namely, that events are construed as ongoing and from within. The findings are discussed with reference to how the context in which a child hears aspectual language may limit the degrees of freedom on what these constructions mean
Grammatical category · Linguistics · Noun · History · Language Development and Disorders · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |