Aspectual coercion and eventuality structure
Aspectual coercion and eventuality structure
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10.1075/slcs.152.05dol
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2014-03
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J. Dölling
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J. Dölling
本文重点讨论了英语中持续状语（如for one day）、时间状语（如in ten minutes）、时间状语（如at seven o'clock）以及进行体的体压制系统及其在可能性领域的根源。体动词被认为是为了防止言语表达的体和语境的体要求之间的冲突而执行的操作。这种调整所产生的意义涉及的材料不是由构成要素提供的，而是源于对可能性的认识。因此，本文的主要问题是什么的整体结构的可能性，以及这种结构如何决定的表达方式，以及它可以在语境中转移。借助于研究领域的先前工作，区分了几种可能性和不同类型的可能性之间存在的一般关系。在此基础上，通过检查数据样本，本文确定了系统转换的多种操作（例如，迭代强制、习惯性强制、起始强制、附加强制和消减强制）。最后，考虑到这些操作具有基本相同的形式结构，因此，有理由进行泛化，提出了一种两阶段的方面强制方法。其最显著的特点是：一是语义组合性原则的有效性得到了充分的维护;二是强制调整最终成为一种语用现象。
The focus of this paper is on the system of aspectual coercion connected with durative adverbials (like for one day), time-span adverbials (like in ten minutes), and time-point adverbials (like at seven o’clock) as well as the progressive in English and its roots in the domain of eventualities. Aspectual coercions are regarded as operations which are executed in order to prevent a conflict between the aspects of a verbal expression and the aspectual requirements of the context. The meaning resulting from such an adjustment involves material which is not contributed by the constituents but originates from knowledge of eventualities. Thus, leading questions of the paper are what the overall structure of eventualities is and how this structure determines the aspectual meaning of expressions as well as the way in which it can be contextually shifted. Recurring to prior work in the field of research, several sorts of eventuality and general relations that exist between eventualities of different sorts are distinguished. On this basis, by examining a sample of data, the paper identifies a multitude of operations for systematically transforming the (e.g., iterative coercion, habitual coercion, inchoative coercion, additive coercion, and subtractive coercion). Finally, taking into account that the operations have basically the same formal structure and, therefore, give reason to generalization, a two-stage approach to aspectual coercion is presented. Its most notably features are that, first, the principle of semantic compositionality is entirely maintained in its validity and, second, adjusting by coercion is turned out to be ultimately a pragmatic phenomenon.