Verbs and Times
TL;DR: The time schemata presupposed by various verbs will appear as important constituents of the concepts that prompt us to use those terms the way the authors consistently do and may be used as models of comparison in exploring and clarifying the behavior of any verb whatever.
About: This article is published in The Philosophical Review.The article was published on 1957-04-01. It has received 2019 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Contemporary philosophy & Analytic philosophy.
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TL;DR: The review details the theoretical stance of the two different approaches to the nature of language: generative linguistics and general cognitive approaches and some results of key acquisition studies from the two theoretical frameworks are discussed.
Abstract: Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field that investigates child and adult SLA from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This article provides a survey of some key areas of concern including formal generative theory and emergentist theory in the areas of morpho-syntax and phonology. The review details the theoretical stance of the two different approaches to the nature of language: generative linguistics and general cognitive approaches. Some results of key acquisition studies from the two theoretical frameworks are discussed. From a generative perspective, constraints on wh-movement, feature geometry and syllable structure, and morphological development are highlighted. From a general cognitive point of view, the emergence of tense and aspect marking from a prototype account of inherent lexical aspect is reviewed. Reference is made to general cognitive learning theories and to sociocultural theory. The article also reviews individual differences research, specifically debate on the critical period in adult language acquisition, motivation, and memory. Finally, the article discusses the relationship between SLA research and second language pedagogy. Suggestions for further reading from recent handbooks on SLA are provided. WIREs Cogni Sci 2011 2 277-286 DOI: 10.1002/wcs.106 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website.
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TL;DR: There is a parallel between the two sets of distinctions in their cooccurrence patterns with expressions denoting numbers or amounts, as in Examples (1a–(4b):.
Abstract: A number of writers have commented on the close parallels between the mass-count distinction in nominal systems and the aspectual classification of verbal expressions (Allen, 1966; Mourelatos, 1978; L. Carlson, 1981; Hoepelman and Rohrer, 1980) that has been the subject of much attention in recent years in linguistics and philosophy. To take just one class of examples for now, there is a parallel between the two sets of distinctions in their cooccurrence patterns with expressions denoting numbers or amounts, as in Examples (1a)–(4b):
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...The classic modern works dealing with verb-classification are Kenny (1963), and Vendler (1957)....
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: A theory will be developed that handles the well known influence of the reference type of NPs in argument positions on the temporal constitution of the verbal expressions, assuming an event semantics with lattice structures and thematic roles as primitive relations between events and objects.
Abstract: This paper treats the correspondence between the reference type of NPs (i.e., mass nouns, count nouns, measure constructions, plurals) and the temporal constitution of verbal predicates (i.e., activities, accomplishments). A theory will be developed that handles the well known influence of the reference type of NPs in argument positions on the temporal constitution of the verbal expressions, assuming an event semantics with lattice structures and thematic roles as primitive relations between events and objects. Some consequences for the theory of thematic roles will be discussed, and the effect of partitive case marking on the verbal aspect, as in Finnish, and of aspectual marking on the definiteness of NPs, like in Slavic, will be explained.
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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: The distinction between atelic and telic predicates has been described in terms of algebraic properties of their meaning since the early days of model-theoretic semantics as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The distinction between telic and atelic predicates has been described in terms of the algebraic properties of their meaning since the early days of model-theoretic semantics. This perspective was inspired by Aristotle’s discussion of types of actions that do or do not take time to be completed which was taken up and turned into a linguistic discussion of action-denoting predicates by Vendler (1957). The algebraic notion that seemed to be most conducive to express the Aristotelian distinction appeared to be the mereological notion of a part, applied to the time at which these predicates hold: atelic predicates, like push a cart, have the subinterval property, that is, whenever they are true at a time interval, then they are true at any part of that interval; this does not hold for telic predicates, like eat an apple, cf. Bennett & Partee (1972), Taylor (1977), and Dowty (1979)2. Bach (1986) integrated these insights into a semantics based on events.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: For instance, the authors showed that there is a parallel between the two sets of distinctions in their cooccurrence patterns with expressions denoting numbers or amounts, as in Examples (1a) and (4b).
Abstract: A number of writers have commented on the close parallels between the mass-count distinction in nominal systems and the aspectual classification of verbal expressions (Allen, 1966; Mourelatos, 1978; L. Carlson, 1981; Hoepelman and Rohrer, 1980) that has been the subject of much attention in recent years in linguistics and philosophy. To take just one class of examples for now, there is a parallel between the two sets of distinctions in their cooccurrence patterns with expressions denoting numbers or amounts, as in Examples (1a)–(4b):
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