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"Study of Aspect, Tense and Action : Towards a Theory of the Semantics of Grammatical Categories" by Carl Bache

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"Study of Aspect, Tense and Action : Towards a Theory of the Semantics of Grammatical Categories" by Carl Bache

"Study of Aspect, Tense and Action : Towards a Theory of the Semantics of Grammatical Categories" by Carl Bache
Second Edition
Peter Lang Pub | 1997 | ISBN: 3631322453 0820435090 9783631322451 9780820435091 | 350 pages | PDF | 11 MB

Author discusses the interaction between language-specific grammars and universal grammar, including the problems of analytic directionality, semantic minimalism, and the general metalanguage of universal grammar.

This book addresses some methodological problems in the study of tense, aspect and action: How should linguists go about describing these categories and with what terminology? How does our work in this area relate to descriptions of language(s) in general? What research strategies should be explored?

The book has several sources of inspiration: generative linguistics, structuralist phonology, glossematics, functional grammar, cognitive semantics and prototype theory. Bache argues strongly for the inclusion of a paradigmatic dimension in the study of the semantics of morphosyntactic categories.

Rather than adhering to one particular linguistic school, Bache provides a general description of tense, aspect and action in the form of generalizations that should be accommodated in any theory.

Contents
1. Introduction
2. Some Methodological Problems
2.1. Some Preliminary Reflections on Universal Grammar
2.2. The Problem of Analytic Directionality
2.3. The Problem of Constructing a Universal Grammar
2.4. A Typological Study of Tense, Mood and Aspect
2.5. The Role of Meaning Reconsidered
3. A Possible Framework for a New Approach
3.1. The Conceptual Reality of Grammatical Categories
3.2. Object-Language, Metalanguage and Source-Language
3.3. Source-Language: Primary and Secondary data
4. Source-Language versus General Metalanguage
4.1. Linguistic Etiquette: Presentation and Evaluation Criteria
4.2. Terminological Identity
4.3. Organizational Isomorphism
4.4. Universal Grammar as an Ideal Construct
4.5. Form in the General Metalanguage
4.6. The Type-Token Distinction: a Useful Analogy
4.7. Principles of Extraction: an Overview
5. On the Nature of Choice in Language
5.1. Delimiting the Notion of Choice
5.2. Choice, Distribution and the Substitution Test
5.3. A Typology of Sentences
6. Categories and Form-Meaning Relationships
6.1. Formal and Semantic Complexity
6.2. The Structure of a Metacategory
6.3. The Structure of Language-Specific Categories
6.4. Defining Category Concepts and Members
6.5. Summary
7. The Metacategories of Action, Tense and Aspect
7.1. Preliminary Identification of Category Concepts
7.2. Categorial Rank and Order of Description
7.3. The Metacategory of Action
7.4. The Metacategory of Tense
7.5. The Metacategory of Aspect
7.6. Categorial Interplay at the Function Level
8. Towards a Theory of Action, Tense and Aspect
8.1. Overview of the Model
8.2. The Model Used for Notational Purposes
8.3. Markedness Relations
8.4. Concord Relations and Context
8.5. Conclusion
References
Index
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