Aspectual Grammar and Past Time Reference
By Laura A. Michaelis
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-15678-3
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1st January 1998
- Pages: 320
About the Book
This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions. In this theory, grammatical constructions, like words, are conventionalized form-meaning pairs, which are best described not only with respect to their intrinsic semantic values, but also with respect to the functional oppositions in which they participate.
