The semantics of the progressive
- This paper is about the meaning of the progressive aspect, which has been notoriously difficult to give a satisfying account of. A number of intriguing properties of its meaning were first brought out in formal semantic treatments. An event semantics approach to the progressive which integrates concepts of normality and perspective as well as adequate lexical representations seems to be particularly promising. In section 2 I will present several problems connected with the semantics of the progressive that are crucial for shaping its truth conditions. Several solutions to these problems that have been suggested in the literature will be discussed. In section 3 I will sketch a preliminary account of the meaning of the progressive aspect. In section 3.1 the basic components that underlie the truth conditions of the progressive will be described. In section 3.2 I will present underlying lexical assumptions and the truth conditions for the progressive. Finally, in section 4, I will evaluate the proposal by revisiting the problems discussed.
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| Author: | Stefan EngelbergORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-10573 |
| URL: | http://www.als.asn.au/proceedings/als2001/engelberg.pdf |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 2001 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society |
| Editor: | Cynthia Allen |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2002 |
| GND Keyword: | Aspekt; Deutsch; Verb |
| Page Number: | 8 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 8 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 420 Englisch |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Sprache im 20. Jahrhundert. Gegenwartssprache |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Semantik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 Deutschland |