This book explores the syntactic nature of inner aspect from a minimalist perspective. It begins with the new observation that there are two independent properties at play in English inner aspect: the object-to-event mapping and event structure. From a discussion of English statives and Russian, it is concluded that the former property is variant and the latter universal; a minimalist conception of language variation arises naturally in this context. Additionally, an exploration of a lexical derivational approach to achievements leads to the expectation that there are no accomplishments in the lexicon. A detailed look at idioms suggests that this expectation is met. These results support the division of labor between an operative lexicon and narrow syntax in aspectual composition; this naturally poses a problem for (neo-)constructional approaches to inner aspect. Finally, one conclusion reached about the syntactic nature of inner aspect regards the object-to-event mapping: it is a purely syntactic phenomenon.
2023. Motion verbs, sentience, and event delimitedness in Blackfoot. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 68:1 ► pp. 3 ff.
Hu, Xuhui
2022. Same Root, Different Categories: Encoding Direction in Chinese. Linguistic Inquiry 53:1 ► pp. 41 ff.
HU, XUHUI
2024. Bundling telicity, verbal quantification, and perfective aspect: A study on lǝ in Yixing Chinese. Journal of Linguistics 60:2 ► pp. 325 ff.
Kamyshna, I.I., L.B. Pavlovych & A.M. Kamyshnyi
2022. Vitamin D alters the transcriptional profile of blood cells in patients with primary hypothyroidism. Fiziolohichnyĭ zhurnal 68:5 ► pp. 16 ff.
KARDOS, ÉVA & IMOLA-ÁGNES FARKAS
2022. The syntax of inner aspect in Hungarian. Journal of Linguistics 58:4 ► pp. 807 ff.
Merchant, Doug
2022. What’s in the bucket? Aspectual (non)compositionality in phrasal idioms. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 40:4 ► pp. 1117 ff.
Mousavi, S. Hamzeh
2022. When past meets future in Persian: A construction grammar approach to futurity. Australian Journal of Linguistics 42:2 ► pp. 105 ff.
Silvagni, Federico
2022. Whenestaris not there: A cross-linguistic analysis of individual/stage-level copular sentences in Romance. Open Linguistics 8:1 ► pp. 108 ff.
Aoyagi, Hiroshi
2021. On the causative and passive morphology in Japanese and Korean. Open Linguistics 7:1 ► pp. 87 ff.
CHILDS, CLAIRE
2021. The grammaticalisation ofneverin British English dialects: Quantifying syntactic and functional change. Journal of Linguistics 57:3 ► pp. 531 ff.
Farkas, Imola-Ágnes
2021. Aspectual cognate objects in Hungarian. Folia Linguistica 55:2 ► pp. 389 ff.
Farkas, Imola-Ágnes
2021. Aspectual cognate objects in Hungarian. Folia Linguistica 0:0
Irimia, Monica Alexandrina & Virginia Hill
2021. Personal se with Unergatives in Romanian. In Unraveling the complexity of SE [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 99], ► pp. 161 ff.
Martínez Vera, Gabriel
2021. Degree achievements and maximalization: a cross-linguistic perspective. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6:1
Pineda, Anna
2021. The Role of SE and NE in Romance Verbs of Directed Motion: Evidence from Catalan, Italian, Aragonese and Spanish Varieties. In Unraveling the complexity of SE [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 99], ► pp. 265 ff.
Quintana Hernández, Lucía
2021. Spanish Anticausative Inherent Reciprocals and Syntactic Reciprocals with Se*. Studia Linguistica 75:3 ► pp. 470 ff.
Vivanco, Margot
2021. Scalar Constraints on Anticausative SE: The Aspectual Hypothesis Revisited. In Unraveling the complexity of SE [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 99], ► pp. 291 ff.
Yates, Anthony D. & John Gluckman
2020. Voice Reversals and Syntactic Structure: Evidence from Hittite. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5:1
2016. Degree quantifiers, bare quantifiers and intensifiers in the midfield: A new look at quantification at a distance. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 1:1
Marques, Rui, Purificação Silvano, Anabela Gonçalves & Ana Lúcia Santos
2015. A microparametric analysis of apparent postverbal negation in Taiwanese Southern Min. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 60:1 ► pp. 51 ff.
Welch, Nicholas
2015. Obligatory Future In A Dene Language. International Journal of American Linguistics 81:1 ► pp. 41 ff.
2014. On the Inner Aspect of Predicates with Differentially Object Marked Internal Arguments: The Case of Romanian. In Language Use and Linguistic Structure, ► pp. 115 ff.
Abe, Jun & Norbert Hornstein
2012. “Lasnik‐Effects” and String‐Vacuous ATB Movement. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 169 ff.
Armoskaite, Solveiga
2012. Aspectual effects of a pluractional suffix: Evidence from Lithuanian. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 129 ff.
Bale, Alan C. & David Barner
2012. Semantic triggers, linguistic variation and the mass‐count distinction. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 238 ff.
Biberauer, Theresa & Michelle Sheehan
2012. Disharmony, Antisymmetry, and the Final‐over‐Final Constraint. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 206 ff.
Bošković, Željko
2012. Don't Feed Your Movements When You Shift Your Objects. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 245 ff.
Bury, Dirk & Hiroyuki Uchida
2012. Constituent Structure Sets II. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 19 ff.
Cheng, Lisa Lai‐Shen
2012. Counting and classifiers. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 199 ff.
Citko, Barbara
2012. A Parallel Merge Solution to the Merchant/Johnson Paradox. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 44 ff.
Cowper, Elizabeth & Daniel Currie Hall
2012. Aspects of individuation. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 27 ff.
Epstein, Samuel David, Hisatsugu Kitahara & T. Daniel Seely
2012. Structure Building That Can't Be. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 253 ff.
Fábregas, Antonio
2012. Evidence for Multidominance in Spanish Agentive Nominalizations. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 66 ff.
Ghaniabadi, Saeed
2012. Plural marking beyond count nouns. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 112 ff.
Ghomeshi, Jila & Diane Massam
2012. The count mass distinction: Issues and perspectives. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 1 ff.
Gračanin‐Yuksek, Martina
2012. Clitic Placement and Multidominance. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 93 ff.
Grimm, Scott
2012. Individuation and inverse number marking in Dagaare. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 75 ff.
Karpava, Sviatlana, Kleanthes K. Grohmann & Konstantinos Fokianos
2012. Aspect in the L2 and L3 Acquisition of Greek. In Cross-linguistic Influences in Multilingual Language Acquisition [Second Language Learning and Teaching, ], ► pp. 41 ff.
Klein, Natalie M., Greg N. Carlson, Renjie Li, T. Florian Jaeger & Michael K. Tanenhaus
2012. Classifying and massifying incrementally in Chinese language comprehension. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 261 ff.
Lahne, Antje
2012. Specificity‐driven Syntactic Derivation. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 271 ff.
Lechner, Winfried
2012. Structure Building From Below: More on Survive and Covert Movement. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 297 ff.
Diane Massam
2012. Count and Mass Across Languages,
Mathieu, Eric
2012. On the mass/count distinction in Ojibwe. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 172 ff.
Miyamoto, Yoichi
2012. On Transparent Adjuncts in Japanese. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 330 ff.
Nunes, Jairo
2012. Sideward Movement: Triggers, Timing, and Outputs. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 114 ff.
Obata, Miki & Samuel David Epstein
2012. Feature‐Splitting Internal Merge: The Case ofTough‐constructions. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 366 ff.
Paul, Ileana
2012. General number and the structure of DP. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 99 ff.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry
2012. Lexical nouns are both +mass and +count, but they are neither +mass nor +count. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 9 ff.
Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria & Vidal Valmala
2012. Ways of Structure Building,
Uribe‐Etxebarria, Myriam & Vidal Valmala
2012. Overview. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 1 ff.
Vries, Mark de
2012. Unconventional Mergers. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 143 ff.
Wiese, Heike
2012. Collectives in the intersection of mass and count nouns: A cross‐linguistic account. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 54 ff.
Wiltschko, Martina
2012. Decomposing the mass/count distinction: Evidence from languages that lack it. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 146 ff.
Zhang, Niina Ning
2012. Countability and numeral classifiers in Mandarin Chinese. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 220 ff.
MacDonald, Jonathan
2011. The phrase structure of phase verbs: An initial contrastive analysis of English and Russian. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 58:3 ► pp. 261 ff.
MacDonald, Jonathan E.
2010. The Aspectual Influence of the Noun: (A)telicity, (A)symmetry, Incrementality and Universality. Language and Linguistics Compass 4:9 ► pp. 831 ff.
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2012. General Preface. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. xi ff.
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2012. Abbreviations. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. xv ff.
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2012. Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 424 ff.
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2012. Abbreviations. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. xvii ff.
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2012. Copyright Page. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. iv ff.
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2012. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. 311 ff.
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2012. The Contributors. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. x ff.
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2012. Copyright Page. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. vi ff.
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2012. General Preface. In Count and Mass Across Languages, ► pp. ix ff.
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2012. Notes on Contributors. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. xiii ff.
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