Culmination/telicity and event delineation in Australian Languages: phonology, morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics

TitreCulmination/telicity and event delineation in Australian Languages: phonology, morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics
Publication TypeChapitre d'ouvrage
Année de publication2022
AuthorsCaudal, Patrick
EditorBoneh, Norah, Daniel Harbour, Ora Matushansky, and Isabelle Roy
Book TitleBuilding on Babel’s Rubble / Construire sur les décombres de Babel
Pagination193-227
PublisherPresses universitaires de Vincennes
CitySaint-Denis
ISBN978-2-37924-235-9
Abstract

The present paper will explore several issues which, I think, have been close to Léa’s theoretical heart throughout her entire career, that is the complex interplay between argument structure, event structure, actionality, tense and aspect parameters in the verb’s morphosyntax to semantics interface. Her numerous publications on transitivity, voice/ ergativity, together with their correlates with respect to tense-aspect and actionality, are a clear indication of a distinctly acquired taste for these particular theoretical notions—a taste Léa had evidently developed as early as her PhD thesis (Nash 1995), and has not stopped cultivating since then, cf. e.g. Nash (2017).

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DOI10.3917/puv.boneh.2022.01.0193