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Aspect vs. actionality: why they should be kept apart
No full textThis contribution shows that the notion of 'aspect' and 'Aktionsart' must be carefully distinguished. It develops an in-depth analysis of different classes of temporal adverbs as a diagnostics for assessing aspect and Aktionsart value
Habituality, pluractionality and imperfectivity
No full textHabituality, as commonly conceived, presupposes a more or less regular iteration of an event, such that the resulting habit is regarded as a characterizing property of a given referent. The notion of habituality is thus strictly related to iterativity, although the two should not be confused. In this chapter we aim to define the respective features of habit- uality and iterativity and to place them in the framework of the broader notion of “ver- bal pluractionality” on the one side, and of “gnomic imperfectivity” on the other side
Aspect vs. actionality
No full textThis contribution discusses the subtle interplay between grammatical aspect and actionality, and in particular the crosslinguistic encoding of several aspectual value
Word order and quantification over times
No full textThis contribution considers some consequences of the assumption that verbs are endowed with an event and a time argument and that temporal adverbs are crucially related with the realisation of these two arguments. The view developed here represents an extension of the hypothesis that verbal predicates are associated with an event argument and that this event argument plays a crucial role in establishing the semantics of theta-role assignmen
A case study in the interaction of aspect and actionality: the imperfect in Italian
No full textThis contribution is concerned with the interplay between the lexical meaning of predicates (actionality) and the semantics of aspectual morphology. It tries to explain why the Imperfect in Italian (and by extension its counterparts in other Romance languages) is aspectually ambiguous, in that it can be assigned, for instance, both a progressive and a habitual reading. The general hypothesis is that progressivity and habituality represent different manifestations of the imperfective aspect, whose main difference with respect to the perfective aspect consists in the fact that its semantics involves the introduction of 'strong' quantifiers over times and event
Aspects, Adverbs and Events: Habituality vs. Perfectivity
No full textAspect and quantification are clearly related and interacting phenomena: since it is possible to
give a quantificational interpretation of aspectual values, we can look at aspect as one of the
ways in which the quantificational force of sentences is established. Thus, it seems
straightforward to include aspect in the class of A-quantification. But then an interesting
question arises, namely how morphologically realized aspectual features are related to other
types of constructional quantification, like the adverbial one. This is our main concern in the
present paper, and we will face it by debating two facets of the general problem, i.e. (i) by
investigating the way in which explicit quantificational adverbs interact with aspectual values;
(ii) by examining whether one of these two features could (or should) be reduced to the other.
In the next section we will mainly deal with point (i). However, a survey of the data will
also bring evidence supporting a negative answer to the question concerning point (ii). Sections
3 and 4 are devoted to outline a formal analysis of aspectual oppositions, that will hopefully be
able to explain the distribution of data that we are going to illustrat
L'espressione della progressività/continuità: un confronto tripolare (italiano, inglese, spagnolo)
No full textIn questo contributo vengono discusse le analogie fra le diverse perifrasi utilizzate in italiano, inglese e spagnolo nell'espressione dei valori aspettuali progressivo e continu
A protocol for the preservation of speech documents archives: towards the digital curation of the Carta dei Dialetti Italiani
No full textThe speech audio documents are in danger of disappearing, because of the poor quality of the material on which they were recorded and the rapid evolution of the recording formats. Moreover, the speech recordings were often made with non-professional systems or in fieldwork circumstances (i.e. with low quality), and in particular cases even risk being forgotten, due to widespread lack of well-established archiving procedures. The paper will describe the protocols defined in some projects carried out by the authors (with particular attention to the project focusing on Carta dei Dialetti Italiani, a unique open reels archive of Italian dialects). The experimental results prove the effectiveness of the preservation protocol defined by the authors
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