Telicity and durativity : a study of aspect in Dëne Sųłiné (Chipewyan) and German
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Telicity and durativity : a study of aspect in Dëne Sųłiné (Chipewyan) and German
（A Routledge series, . Studies in linguistics）
Routledge, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-325) and indexes
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Description
This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of natural language.
The study of events, and of event characteristics, is an important testing ground for theories on the boundary between extralinguistic and linguistic knowledge, and on the relation between semantics and syntax. Telicity and durativity are notions which have become increasingly influential in both the semantic and the syntactic, i.e., grammaticalized, representation of events.
The book furthers the understanding of events through the comparison of two genetically and typologically distinct languages, German and Dene Suline (Chipewyan/Athapaskan), an indigenous language of Northwestern Canada. It contains the first in-depth documentation of the aspectual system of Dene Suline, and a careful analysis of the aspectual behaviour of German particle verbs. A stringent methodology considers semantic, pragmatic, and grammatical factors in both languages.
The data reveal that telicity and durativity belong to profoundly different semantic and grammatical domains, and that neither notion is grammaticalized universally. While both notions are represented semantically in German as well as in Dene Suline, telicity is grammaticalized only in the former and durativity is grammaticalized only in the latter.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
List of tables
List of maps
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
PART I: DENE SULINE
CHAPTER TWO: Viewpoint aspect and its influence on situation type in Dene
CHAPTER THREE: TELICITY IS NOT GRAMMATIZED IN DENE
PART II: GERMAN
CHAPTER FOUR: TELICITY IN GERMAN
CHAPTER 5: Viewpoint Aspect and Durativity in German
CHAPTER SIX: The grammatization of aspectual notions
APPENDIX 1: Dene verbs and tests
APPENDIX 2: German verbs and tests
APPENDIX 3: The Dene Progressive
End Notes
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
