By: Stephen C. Carlson
Quite a number of linguists have pointed out the analogy between telicity and count nouns, and between activities and mass nouns (and even between states and abstract nouns). I think there’s something...
View ArticleBy: Mike Aubrey
It’s true. Jan Rijkoff’s book Noun Phrases has a really useful typological summary of nominal aspect. It’s not technical in the sense of Verkuyl’s work. It gives more of a practical overview of the...
View ArticleBy: Stephen C. Carlson
Quite a number of linguists have pointed out the analogy between telicity and count nouns, and between activities and mass nouns (and even between states and abstract nouns). I think there’s something...
View ArticleBy: Mike Aubrey
It’s true. Jan Rijkoff’s book Noun Phrases has a really useful typological summary of nominal aspect. It’s not technical in the sense of Verkuyl’s work. It gives more of a practical overview of the...
View ArticleBy: Aspect and imperatives: General vs. specific | Koine Greek
[…] is not. One can be counted the other cannot (cf. Once and Twice: The Countability of Events and Read This! Imperatives and the Countability of Events). This is called boundedness. The imperfective...
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