TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Engelberg, Stefan
ED  - Fox, Michelle Minnick
ED  - Han, Na-Rae
ED  - Alexander, Jim
T1  - “Punctuality” and verb semantics
T2  - Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium : University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
N2  - Whether verbs have to be marked as punctual vs. durative has been a controversial issue from the very beginnings of research on aktionsarten in the last century right on up to modern theories of aspectual classes and aspect composition. Debates about the linguistic necessity of this distinction have often been accompanied by the question of what it means for a verb to be temporally punctual. In this paper I will, firstly, sketch the history of research on the punctual-durative distinction and present several linguistic arguments in its favor. Secondly, I will show how this distinction is captured in an eventstructure- based approach to lexical semantics. Thirdly, I will discuss the extent to which a precise definition of the notions used in lexical
representations helps avoid circular argumentation in lexical semantics. Finally, I will demonstrate how this can be done for the notion of ‘punctuality’ by clarifying the logical type of this predicate and relating it to central cognitive time concepts.
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Verb
KW  - Verbsemantik
KW  - punctual verb
Y1  - 1999
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-10774
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-10774
VL  - 6.1
SP  - 127
EP  - 140
S1  - 14
PB  - Penn Linguistics Club
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  -