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Meaning and morphosyntax I: the semantics of grammatical categories
The semantics of parts of speech
lexical or grammatical categories
Delimited parts of speech
Variation
Radford (2004/1988)
Huddleston and Pullum (2002)
Hockett’s (1958)
Morpho-distributional criteria
inflections
Singular
Plural
The origin of parts of speech systems
This eight-fold classification
Thrax’s grammar
Semantic criteria
commonalities in the
meanings of words
semantic interpretations of the parts of speech
Noun (substantive):
Verb
Adjective
Multicategoriality
both nouns and verbs
word
inserted into a pre-nominal position,
roots
inserted into this position.
The semantics of tense and aspect
morphosyntactic categories
interesting and complex semantics
close relations
with other grammatical properties
Tense
English grammar
future tense
present tense
past tense
Aspect and Aktionsart
fundamental difference from tenses
show different ways of presenting time within the event itself
perfective and imperfective aspect
contrast is independent of the actual duration of the event in
question
Aktionsart
aspectual classification
states
•activities
•accomplishments
•achievements, and
•semelfactives
Aspect
it only makes
reference to the internal temporal properties of the event
Typology of tense–aspect interactions
non-grammatical (lexical and pragmatic) means
tense–aspect
