Bound Ability Readings of Imperfective Verbs: A Case for Presupposition
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Czech in Formal Grammar |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | aspect; presupposition; formal semantics; Romance languages; Slavonic languages |
| Description | We have argued that in order to understand the Aspectual semantics and the morphology-semantics mapping in the Aspectual domain, we must also take into account the presuppositional content of the Aspectual morphology. We have established that the denotation of Perfective and Imperfective in the Slavic and Romance languages may be identical but the usage of the Aspectual morphology differs because of distinct presuppositions associated with the morphology in these languages. |
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