Viewpoint Aspect in Inuktitut: The Syntax and Semantics of Antipassives
In many languages, antipassive morphology is comprised of aspectual morphology (Polinsky 2008). This thesis presents an analysis of the syntax and semantics of antipassives in Inuktitut by exploring the link between aspectual morphology and antipassive morphology. It resolves the longstanding questi...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.474.8103 2023-05-15T16:55:35+02:00 Viewpoint Aspect in Inuktitut: The Syntax and Semantics of Antipassives Bettina Spreng The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2012 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.474.8103 http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~bspreng/Thesis Viewpoint Aspect.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.474.8103 http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~bspreng/Thesis Viewpoint Aspect.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~bspreng/Thesis Viewpoint Aspect.pdf text 2012 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T07:31:06Z In many languages, antipassive morphology is comprised of aspectual morphology (Polinsky 2008). This thesis presents an analysis of the syntax and semantics of antipassives in Inuktitut by exploring the link between aspectual morphology and antipassive morphology. It resolves the longstanding question as to the factors governing the distribution of the antipassive morpheme, showing that the presence of the antipassive morpheme is determined by the meaning of the construction, i.e. it does not merely change the grammatical function. It is proposed that the antipassive construction has imperfective viewpoint in contrast to the ergative construction. Antipassive morphology is obligatory with punctual telic verbs, i.e. achievements, which are verbs that have perfective viewpoint by default. Antipassive morphology is thus necessary to convey imperfective viewpoint for verbs that are by default perfective. Using a modified Reichenbachian (Reichenbach 1947) framework, it is shown that imperfective viewpoint does not allow for telic interpretations. Instead, punctuality iii Text inuktitut Unknown |
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In many languages, antipassive morphology is comprised of aspectual morphology (Polinsky 2008). This thesis presents an analysis of the syntax and semantics of antipassives in Inuktitut by exploring the link between aspectual morphology and antipassive morphology. It resolves the longstanding question as to the factors governing the distribution of the antipassive morpheme, showing that the presence of the antipassive morpheme is determined by the meaning of the construction, i.e. it does not merely change the grammatical function. It is proposed that the antipassive construction has imperfective viewpoint in contrast to the ergative construction. Antipassive morphology is obligatory with punctual telic verbs, i.e. achievements, which are verbs that have perfective viewpoint by default. Antipassive morphology is thus necessary to convey imperfective viewpoint for verbs that are by default perfective. Using a modified Reichenbachian (Reichenbach 1947) framework, it is shown that imperfective viewpoint does not allow for telic interpretations. Instead, punctuality iii |
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