Publications

Authors:

Delfitto, Denis; Bertinetto, P. M.

Title:

A case study in the interaction of aspect and actionality: the imperfect in Italian

Year:

1995

Type of item:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Book Title:

Temporal reference, aspect and actionality: semantic and syntactic perspectives

Publisher:

Rosenberg & Sellier

ISBN:

9788870116373

Page numbers:

125-142

Keyword:

aspect; actionality; imperfect

Short description of contents:

This contribution is concerned with the interplay between the lexical meaning of predicates (actionality) and the semantics of aspectual morphology. It tries to explain why the Imperfect in Italian (and by extension its counterparts in other Romance languages) is aspectually ambiguous, in that it can be assigned, for instance, both a progressive and a habitual reading. The general hypothesis is that progressivity and habituality represent different manifestations of the imperfective aspect, whose main difference with respect to the perfective aspect consists in the fact that its semantics involves the introduction of 'strong' quantifiers over times and events

Product ID:

26030

Handle IRIS:

11562/26030

Deposited On:

July 10, 2012

Last Modified:

October 19, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Delfitto, Denis; Bertinetto, P. M., A case study in the interaction of aspect and actionality: the imperfect in Italian Temporal reference, aspect and actionality: semantic and syntactic perspectives , P. M. Bertinetto, V. Bianchi, J. Higginbotham, M. Squartini , Rosenberg & Sellier , 1995 , pp. 125-142

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