Morphosyntax of Telicity and Pseudo-aspectual Structures

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Based on the morphosyntactic characterization of grammatical aspect, this paper argues that certain purported aspectual structures—those which are based on motion verbs, reflexive verbs, and so on—are not aspectual in nature, but involve a full-fledged lexical iss- of ‘to exist/stay,’ denoting a coordination of two sequentially connected events. An aspectual iss-, on the other hand, just adds functional information that the event of the preceding verb is to be aspectually specified. They are structurally distinct from periphrases of grammatical aspect and hence exhibit properties not associated with aspectual sentences headed by iss-. The specification of the grammatical aspect headed by iss- depends on Telic whose morphosyntactic computation via the uninterpretable [TELOS] amounts to a non- agentive telic intransitive event, capturing the telic intransitivity condition responsible for the systematic gaps associated with iss-headed perfectives.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Morphosyntax of Telicity and Grammatical Aspect
• 3. Pseudo-aspectual Periphrases
• 4. Concluding Remarks
• References