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TELICITY

 

¥ Syllabus

¥ Reading Materials

Bach, Emmon. 1981. On Time, Tense, and Aspect: An Essay in English Metaphysics. In Peter Cole, (ed.), Radical Pragmatics, 63–81. New York: Academic Press.

Bach, Emmon. 1986. The Algebra of Events. Linguistics and Philosophy 9:5-16.

Bennett, Michael, and Partee, Barbara: 1972, Toward the logic of tense and aspect in English. System Development Corporation, Santa Monica, California.

Dowty, David R. 1979. Word meaning and Montague Grammar: The semantics of verbs and times in Generative Semantics and in MontagueÕs PTQ. Dordrecht: Reidel.  Pp. 51-83 & 83-99.

Filip, Hana. 2008. Events and maximalization: The case of telicity and perfectivity. In S. Rothstein, ed., Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect, pp. 217–256. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Filip, Hana. 2005. Measures and Indefinites. In G.N. Carlson, and F. J. Pelletier, eds., Reference and Quantification: The Partee Effect. Festschrift for Barbara Hall Partee, pp. 229-288. Stanford, CA:CSLI Publications.

Filip, Hana. 1999.  Aspect and Noun Phrase Semantics in German and Finnish. 

Garey, Howard B. 1957. Verbal aspects in French, Language, 33, 91-110.

Kiparsky, Paul. 1998.  Partitive case and aspect, in M. Butt & W. Geuder (Eds.), The projection of arguments: Lexical and compositinal factors, Stanford, CSLI Publications, pp. 265-307.

Kratzer, Angelika. 2004. Telicity and the meaning of objective case. In J. GuŽron and J. Lecarme, eds., The syntax of time, pp. 389–424. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Krifka, Manfred. 1992. Thematic relations as links between nominal reference and temporal constitution, in I. A. Sag & A. Szabolcsi (Eds.), Lexical Matters, Stanford, CSLI, pp. 29-53.

Krifka, Manfred. 1998. The origins of telicity, in S. Rothstein (Ed.), Events and grammar, Dordrecht, Kluwer, pp. 197-235.

Landman, Fred and Rothstein, Susan. 2011. The felicity of aspectual for-phrases, part 1 and 2: incremental homogeneity. In Language and Linguistics Compass, Blackwell-Wiley, Oxford.

Mourelatos, Alexander  P. D. 1978/81. Events, Processes and States. Linguistics and Philosophy 2:415-434. [Reprinted in P. Tedeschi & A. Zaenen (eds.) 1981, 191-212.]

Partee, Barbara H. 1999. Nominal and temporal semantic structure: Aspect and quantification. In Eva Hajičov‡, Tomas Hoskovec, Oldřich Leška, and Petr Sgall, eds., Prague Linguistic Circle Papers, Vol.3, 91–108.

Taylor, Barry. 1977. Tense and continuity, Linguistics and Philosophy, 1, 199-220.

Verkuyl, Henk J. 1972. On the compositional nature of the aspects, Dordrecht, Reidel.

Verkuyl, Henk J. 2005. Aspectual Composition: Surveying the ingredients. In H.J. Verkuyl & H. de Swart (Eds.), Perspectives on Aspect. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (pp. 19-39). Dordrecht: Springer.

Wierzbicka, Anna. 1968. On the semantics of the verbal aspect in Polish, To Honor Roman Jakobson Essays on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, The Hague, Mouton, pp. 2231-2249.

Zucchi, Alessandro and White, Michael. 2001. Twigs, sequences and the temporal constitution of predicates, Linguistics and Philosophy, 24(2), 223-270.

 

More references and reading assignments will be given during the course of the seminar.

 

 

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