TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Bochnak, M. Ryan
A1  - Hohaus, Vera
A1  - Mucha, Anne
T1  - Variation in tense and aspect, and the temporal interpretation of complement clauses
JF  - Journal of Semantics
N2  - In this paper, we investigate the temporal interpretation of propositional attitude complement clauses in four typologically unrelated languages: Washo (language isolate), Medumba (Niger-Congo), Hausa (Afro-Asiatic), and Samoan (Austronesian). Of these languages, Washo and Medumba are optional-tense languages, while Hausa and Samoan are tenseless. Just like in obligatory-tense languages, we observe variation among these languages when it comes to the availability of so-called simultaneous and backward-shifted readings of complement clauses. For our optional-tense languages, we argue that a Sequence of Tense parameter is active in these languages, just as in obligatory-tense languages. However, for completely tenseless clauses, we need something more. We argue that there is variation in the degree to which languages make recourse to res-movement, or a similar mechanism that manipulates LF structures to derive backward-shifted readings in tenseless complement clauses. We additionally appeal to cross-linguistic variation in the lexical semantics of perfective aspect to derive or block certain readings. The result is that the typological classification of a language as tensed, optionally tensed, or tenseless, does not alone determine the temporal interpretation possibilities for complement clauses. Rather, structural parameters of variation cross-cut these broad classes of languages to deliver the observed cross-linguistic picture.
KW  - Attributsatz
KW  - Tempus
KW  - Aspekt <Linguistik>
KW  - Kontrastive Linguistik
Y1  - 2019
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-93034
UR  - https://academic.oup.com/jos/article/36/3/407/5532629?searchresult=1
SN  - 0167-5133
SS  - 0167-5133
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffz008
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffz008
VL  - 36
IS  - 3
SP  - 407
EP  - 452
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -