Aspect and quantification are clearly related and interacting phenomena: since it is possible to give a quantificational interpretation of aspectual values, we can look at aspect as one of the ways in which the quantificational force of sentences is established. Thus, it seems straightforward to include aspect in the class of A-quantification. But then an interesting question arises, namely how morphologically realized aspectual features are related to other types of constructional quantification, like the adverbial one. This is our main concern in the present paper, and we will face it by debating two facets of the general problem, i.e. (i) by investigating the way in which explicit quantificational adverbs interact with aspectual values; (ii) by examining whether one of these two features could (or should) be reduced to the other. In the next section we will mainly deal with point (i). However, a survey of the data will also bring evidence supporting a negative answer to the question concerning point (ii). Sections 3 and 4 are devoted to outline a formal analysis of aspectual oppositions, that will hopefully be able to explain the distribution of data that we are going to illustrate
Aspects, Adverbs and Events: Habituality vs. Perfectivity
LENCI, ALESSANDRO
2000-01-01
Abstract
Aspect and quantification are clearly related and interacting phenomena: since it is possible to give a quantificational interpretation of aspectual values, we can look at aspect as one of the ways in which the quantificational force of sentences is established. Thus, it seems straightforward to include aspect in the class of A-quantification. But then an interesting question arises, namely how morphologically realized aspectual features are related to other types of constructional quantification, like the adverbial one. This is our main concern in the present paper, and we will face it by debating two facets of the general problem, i.e. (i) by investigating the way in which explicit quantificational adverbs interact with aspectual values; (ii) by examining whether one of these two features could (or should) be reduced to the other. In the next section we will mainly deal with point (i). However, a survey of the data will also bring evidence supporting a negative answer to the question concerning point (ii). Sections 3 and 4 are devoted to outline a formal analysis of aspectual oppositions, that will hopefully be able to explain the distribution of data that we are going to illustrateI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
