This paper presents a unified theory of aspect as a parameter of Universal Grammar. Smith provides an unusual combination of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches to a single domain as well as detailed linguistic analyses of languages with very different aspectual systems. Extensive discussion of the linguistic evidence is complemented by a formal semantic treatment, set in the framework of Discourse Representation Theory. The analysis offers an explicit procedure to arrive at the aspectual meaning of a sentence from its syntactic surface structure. Among the theoretical innovations are a principled account of the interaction between viewpoint aspect and situation type.
Keywords: two component theory, aspectual meaning ,aspect, situation aspect, view point aspect, discourse representation theory.
Lucy R. Montolalu; E-mail: Lucy r-m@ indo.net.id
Keywords: two component theory, aspectual meaning ,aspect, situation aspect, view point aspect, discourse representation theory.
Lucy R. Montolalu; E-mail: Lucy r-m@ indo.net.id
