Beyond Aspectual Semantics: Explorations in the Pragmatic and Cognitive Realms of Aspect

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Astrid De Wit (Assistant Professor of English Linguistics, Assistant Professor of English Linguistics, University of Antwerp) Frank Brisard (Associate Professor of English Linguistics, Associate Professor of English Linguistics, University of Antwerp)

Beyond Aspectual Semantics

Explorations in the Pragmatic and Cognitive Realms of Aspect

Astrid De Wit (Assistant Professor of English Linguistics, Assistant Professor of English Linguistics, University of Antwerp), Frank Brisard (Associate Professor of English Linguistics, Associate Professor of English Linguistics, University of Antwerp), Carol Madden-Lombardi (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, CNRS/Université de Bourgogne) , Michael Meeuwis (Professor of African Linguistics, Professor of African Linguistics, Ghent University)

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Oxford University Press
22 May 2024

Philosophy of language; Semantics; Cognition & cognitive psychology

This volume brings together insights from leading scholars in the field of grammatical aspect to examine the multifaceted nature of this pivotal linguistic resource used to express temporal meaning. The contributors explore the many ways in which linguistic research can move beyond canonical semantic analyses of aspect, which still focus to a great extent on objective temporal features of what can be called 'situation models', i.e. integrated cognitive representations of designated states of affairs. The chapters in this volume widen this outlook by concentrating on less typical contexts in which aspectual constructions are used, e.g. for affective purposes, to mark the epistemic status of situations, or to shape narrative structures. This focus on non-prototypicality is also reflected in the languages investigated, many of which are understudied with respect to their aspectual constructions, including several African languages and the sign language Kata Kolok. The volume adopts a multidisciplinary methodological approach, and introduces possible directions for future research based on experimental studies, fieldwork research, and translation mining.

Edited by: Astrid De Wit (Assistant Professor of English Linguistics Assistant Professor of English Linguistics University of Antwerp), Frank Brisard (Associate Professor of English Linguistics, Associate Professor of English Linguistics, University of Antwerp), Carol Madden-Lombardi (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, CNRS/Université de Bourgogne), Michael Meeuwis (Professor of African Linguistics, Professor of African Linguistics, Ghent University), Adeline Patard (Maître de Conférences, Maître de Conférences, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 738g
ISBN: 9780192849311
ISBN 10: 019284931X
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 22 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Astrid De Wit is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Antwerp, having previously held positions at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her monograph The Present Perfective Paradox Across Languages was published by OUP in 2017. Frank Brisard is Associate Professor at the University of Antwerp and a member of the research group 'Grammar and Pragmatics'. His research is informed by a cognitive-functional and usage-based approach to language, combined with a pragmatic focus on the analysis of language in use. He is an associate editor of the journal Pragmatics and co-editor of the Bibliography of Pragmatics and Handbook of Pragmatics. Carol Madden-Lombardi is Senior Researcher at the CNRS, working in the Cognition, Action, and Sensorimotor Plasticity Laboratory at the University of Bourgogne in Dijon. Her research employs behavioural and neuroscience methodologies to investigate the embodied and modality-specific nature of language representations. Michael Meeuwis is Professor of African Languages at Ghent University. His research focuses on the history of colonial and missionary linguistics in Central Africa and on the study of the grammar of languages in the region. His most recent book is A Grammatical Overview of Lingála (Lincom, 2020). Adeline Patard is Maître de Conferences at Caen University, where she teaches medieval French, diachronic linguistics, and corpus linguistics. Her research explores the semantics and pragmatics of TAM markers from a contrastive and diachronic perspective, and she is the editor of the journal Syntaxe & Sémantique.