Tense and Aspect From Semantics to Morphosyntax

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ISBN: 9780195091939 | 0195091930
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Copyright: 12/11/1997

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This book examines the interactions between the morphosyntax and the semantic interpretation of tense and aspect in the Germanic and Romance languages. These languages diverge not only in their variety of tense and aspectual forms, but also in the distribution and interpretation of given forms. Adopting Noam Chomsky's minimalist framework, Alessandra Giorgi and Fabio Pianesi attempt to provide theoretical explanations for the observed patterns of form and meaning which link the morphosyntactic properties of languages in both universal and language-particular constraints on interpretation.

Symbols	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
The Syntactic and Semantic Background	p. 3
The syntactic framework	p. 3
The Split-Infl hypothesis	p. 3
Chomsky's minimalist approach	p. 6
A few words on phrase structure	p. 12
Syncretic categories and the Feature Scattering Principle	p. 13
The semantic representation	p. 17
Tenses as sentential operators	p. 17
Temporal entities	p. 22
Events	p. 25
On the Italian, Latin, and Portuguese Temporal Systems	p. 37
The temporal projection	p. 37
The Italian system	p. 40
The Latin system	p. 45
The Portuguese system	p. 47
On nominative case assignment	p. 52
On the etymology of the Latin pluperfect and future perfect	p. 56
The Present Perfect in Germanic and Romance	p. 67
The morphosyntactic properties of the Germanic verbal systems	p. 68
The morphosyntax of the English verbal system	p. 68
Other Germanic languages	p. 76
The position of negation	p. 79
English modals again	p. 83
On the present perfect puzzle	p. 84
The simple past and the present perfect in Italian	p. 87
The semantics of the present perfect	p. 90
On the notion of consequent state	p. 90
Some tentative speculations on the semantics of the present perfect and the simple past	p. 93
A revision of the notion of consequent state	p. 97
A compositional semantics for synthetic and analytic perfects	p. 99
On the argumental status of temporal adverbials	p. 101
The present perfect in English and MSc and temporal localizations	p. 111
Toward an account of the present perfect puzzle	p. 114
More on the present perfect in Italian-like languages	p. 118
A note on Icelandic	p. 119
The interpretation of the present perfect in Spanish and Catalon	p. 122
The analysis of the Portuguese periphrastic present perfect	p. 123
Some observations on the temporal and aspectual properties of the Italian present perfect	p. 126
The present perfect in Catanese and Vicentino	p. 133
The Present and Imperfect in Germanic and Romance	p. 151
The present tense	p. 152
Crosslinguistic evidence	p. 152
The structure of events	p. 154
Punctuality and the properties of the speech event	p. 157
A revised notion of punctuality	p. 158
The present tense and perfectivity	p. 160
On the present-in-the-past interpretation of embedded events in Germanic and Romance	p. 173
The Italian imperfect: a characterisation	p. 173
Comparative evidence	p. 181
On the Semantics and Morphosyntax of the Italian Subjunctive	p. 193
Toward a semantics of the subjunctive	p. 193
The data	p. 194
Previous accounts	p. 201
Mood and modality	p. 205
Mood in subordinate clauses	p. 211
Factive predicates	p. 218
Dream and its companions	p. 220
Intralinguistic variations in mood choice	p. 223
Other factors affecting mood choice	p. 224
Concluding remarks	p. 228
The morphosyntax of the Italian subjunctive	p. 230
Syncretic categories and the Feature Scattering Principle	p. 230
Subject-Verb inversion phenomena in Italian	p. 232
The V-to-C solution	p. 236
The syncretic category solution	p. 239
Extraction from subjunctive clauses	p. 247
Conclusions	p. 256
Conditionals and counterfactuals	p. 256
The Double Accessibility Reading in Italian and English	p. 280
The Double Accessibility Reading	p. 280
The Italian data	p. 282
The English data	p. 285
Conclusions	p. 289
References	p. 293
Author Index	p. 304
Subject Index	p. 308
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