Encoding Aktionsarten through morphology: A language strategy for aspect

Gerasymova, Kateryna; Spranger, Michael; Beuls, Katrien

doi:10.1075/ais.3.13ger

In:Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
Edited by Luc Steels
[Advances in Interaction Studies 3] 2012
► pp. 257–276

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A language strategy for aspect

Encoding Aktionsarten through morphology

Kateryna Gerasymova | Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris

Michael Spranger | Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris

Katrien Beuls | Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Published online: 23 February 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/ais.3.13ger

This chapter explores a possible language strategy for verbalizing aspect: the encoding of Aktionsarten by means of morphological markers. Russian tense-aspect system is used as a model. We first operationalize this system and reconstruct the learning operators needed for acquiring it. Then we perform a first language formation experiment in which a novel system of Aktionsarten emerges and gets coordinated between the agents, driven by a need for higher expressivity.

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