Day |
Topic |
Handout(s) |
Reading |
| T8/28 | Introduction: Course information; Begin tense
and aspect overview |
Course information (pdf); Tense and Aspect Preliminaries (pdf) |
Comrie, Aspect: Chapters 1-2, 4-5 |
| T9/4 | Tense and aspect overview:
continued |
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| T9/11 |
Tense and aspect overview:
conclusion |
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| Focus on aspect: Nina presents |
Nina's
slides (ppt) |
Binnick, Robert I. 2006. Aspect and Aspectuality. Handbook of English Linguistics. | |
| T9/18 |
Focus on tense: David presents | Michaelis, Laura. 2006. Time and Tense. Handbook of English Language and Linguistics. | |
| Summary of the selection theory and discussion of
tense/aspect/modality interface |
Handout |
Fleischman,
Suzanne. 1989. Temporal Distance: A Basic Linguistic Metaphor. Studies in Language 13: 1-50. |
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| T9/25 |
Generic meaning: Sean presents (Dahl), Susan presents
(Langacker) and Alison presents (Khemlani et al.) |
Sean's handout Laura's general discussion questions |
Dahl,
Östen. 1995. The Marking of the Episodic/Generic
Distinction in Tense-Aspect Systems. The
Generic Book. Langacker, Ronald W. 1996. A Constraint on Progressive Generics. Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language. Khemlani, Sangeet et al. 2007. Do Ducks Lay Eggs? How People Interpret Generic Assertions. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. |
| T10/2 |
Formal approaches to tense
and
aspect: Will presents |
Herweg, Michael. 1991. Two Classical Approaches to Aspect. Journal of Semantics. | |
| Aspect in syntax:
Kevin presents |
Laura's RHL Summary |
Rappaport-Hovav, Malka and Beth
Levin. 1998. Building Verb Meanings. The
Projection of Argument Structure. |
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| T10/9 |
A selection-based
model of aspect without coercion: Travis presents |
Bickel, Balthasar. 1997. Aspectual Scope and the Difference between Logical and Seamantic Representation. Lingua 102: 115-131. | |
| Strategies for field
reports |
Field report guidelines |
Excerpt from Bybee, J. et al. 1994. The Evolution of Grammar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
| T10/16 |
Wichita tense and aspect:
Guest
lecture by David Rood |
Rood, David. 1975. Wichita
Verb
Structure: Inflectional Categories. In J. Crawford, ed., Studies in Southeastern Indian Languages.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. |
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| Anastasia's field
report: Russian |
Smith,
Carlota and Gilbert Rappaport. 1997. The Aspectual System of Russian.
In Smith, Carlota. 1997. The Parameter of
Aspect. Dordrecht: Kluwer. [Chapter 10] |
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| Aspectual-class
labeling practice |
Verb
annotation
worksheet |
Text
to
annotate |
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| T10/23 |
'Pop quiz' on Aktionsart |
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| Aktionsart class
in grammatical explanation: Jena presents |
Goldberg,
A.
& F. Ackerman, The Pragmatics of Obligatory Adjuncts. Language
77:
798-814 |
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| Sean's field
report: Makary Kotoko |
Wolff,
Ekkehard. 1979. Grammatical
Categories of Verb Stems and the Marking of Mood, Aktionsart and Aspect
in Chadic. Monographic Journals of
the Near East, Afroasiatic Linguistics. [particularly
section 1 (pp.1-13), sections 2.2.1.9, 2.2.1.10, 2.2.2, 2.2.3 (pp.
26-29), section 2.3.2 (pp. 43-44)] Frajzyngier, Zygmunt. 2004. Tense and Aspect as Coding Means for Information Structure: A Potential Areal Feature. Journal of West African Languages. |
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| T10/30 |
Jena's field
report: English verb-particle complexes |
Jackendoff,
Ray. 2002. English Particle Constructions, the Lexicon, and the
Autonomy of Syntax. In N. Dehé et al., eds., Verb-Particle
Explorations. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 67-94. |
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| Nina's field
report: German |
Bamberg, Michael. 1994.
Development of Linguistic Forms: German. In R. Berman and D. Slobin,
eds., Relating Events in Narrative:
A Crosslinguistics Developmental Study. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
(See also a photocopy of the Frog Story, the picturebook narrative used
in the study, in the rolling file.) |
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| T11/6 |
Travis's field
report: English Sequence of Tense |
Declerck,
Renaat. 1990. Sequence of Tenses in English. Folia Linguistica 24: 513-44. |
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| Susan's field
report: Welsh |
Haspelmath,
Martin. 1998. The Semantic Development of Old Presents: New Futures and
Subjunctives without Grammaticalization. Diachronica 15: 29-62. |
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11/13 |
David's field
report: Perfect in Spanish |
Howe, Chad and Scott Schwenter. 2003.
Present Perfect for Preterite across Spanish Dialects. In T. Sanchez
and U. Horesh, eds., Penn Working
Papers in Linguistics: Selected Papers from NWAV 31. 61-76. |
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| Will's field
report: Biblical Hebrew |
Cook,
J.A. 2006. The Finite Verbal Forms in Biblical Hebrew Do Express
Aspect. Journal of the Near Eastern
Society 30: 21-35. |
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T11/27 |
Take-home quiz on Aspect (due) | Quiz |
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| Aspectual
coercion: Anastasia presents |
Michaelis, Laura A. 2004. Type Shifting in Construction Grammar: An Integrated Approach to Aspectual Coercion. Cognitive Linguistics 15: 1-67 |
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| Japanese tense and aspect:
Kotoe
presents |
Ogihara, Toshiyuki. 1999. The
Semantics of Tense and Aspect in Japanese. The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics. Blackwell.
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T12/4 |
Discussion of term paper guidelines | Term paper guidelines (revised as of 11/8) | |
| Kotoe's field
report: Japanese Perfect vs. Resultative |
Hasegawa,
Yoko. 1992. On the Ambiguity between the Perfect and the Resultative:
Evidence from V-te ar- Constructions in Japanese. Berkeley Linguistics Society Proceedings
18: 88-99. |
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| T12/11 |
Kevin's field
report: Portuguese |
Excerpt from Santos, Diana.
2004. Translation-Based Corpus
Studies: Contrasting English and Portuguese Tense and Aspect Systems.
Amsterdam: Rodopi. |
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| Discussion of term-paper
challenges |
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