Syntax
Hassan Barzegar; Mahinnaz Mirdehghan Farashah; Gholamhossein Karimidoostan
Volume 13, Issue 2 , February 2022, , Pages 167-194
Abstract
The study of Lexical Aspect in Persian Complex Predicates has been a controversial topic in recent years. As far as telicity is concerned, there are two contrasting approaches in this field: one in which the “Preverbal elements”, including nouns, adjectives, and prepositional phrases, are ...
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The study of Lexical Aspect in Persian Complex Predicates has been a controversial topic in recent years. As far as telicity is concerned, there are two contrasting approaches in this field: one in which the “Preverbal elements”, including nouns, adjectives, and prepositional phrases, are considered to be determinant of telicity; and the other, in which “Light Verbs” are considered to be determinant. The present research is aimed to study the aspectual properties of Persian Denominal Complex predicates, and the role and contribution of its constituents in the aspectual properties of theses verbs. For this purpose, the First Phase Syntax is been used to divide the eventive nominal preverbs into two main classes, including process and achievement nouns. Evidences have been provided showing that telicity in eventive denominal CPrs is determined by the event structure of the nominal preverb. Therefore, CPrs which benefit from a process preverb are all atelic, due to the non-bounded nature of the nominal, while those with achievement nominals are all telic, due to the bounded event structure of their preverbal element. The result of this study illustrates that light verbs are neutral in determining the telicity of Persian Complex Predicates. Moreover, it shows that some CPrs with eventive nominals are atelic.
Fatemeh Daneshpazhouh; Gholamhossein Karimi-Dustan; Zeynab Mohammad Ebrahimi; Belqies Roshan
Volume 5, Issue 8 , April 2013, , Pages 53-80
Abstract
The present paper examines the nature of verb lexical aspect and its relation to -rā/rē non-active morpheme in Sorani Kurdish based on Vendler (1956 & 1967) and Croft (2010). The research method is analytic-descriptive. The article shows that although some verbs have the same aspectual features, they ...
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The present paper examines the nature of verb lexical aspect and its relation to -rā/rē non-active morpheme in Sorani Kurdish based on Vendler (1956 & 1967) and Croft (2010). The research method is analytic-descriptive. The article shows that although some verbs have the same aspectual features, they don’t have the same behaviour regarding the attachment of rē/rā morpheme since the verb form, namely simple or non-simple, affects the attaching -rē/rā morpheme. It shows that not only the lexical aspect, but the form of the verb morphology plays a crucial role in accounting for the presence or absence of -rā/rē morpheme at the syntax level which, in turn, implicates the interaction between the meaning, morphology and syntax in this language. Furthermore, in this article, it is shown that in most cases, the "in phrase" and "for phrase" tests are not efficient means to distinguish telic from atelic events. This causes these tests not to play a crucial role to distinguish events based on lexical aspect in Kurdish. Nonetheless, the-rā/rē non-active morpheme can attach to the verb in both telic and atelic events. So there is no direct relationship between a non-active structure and the telicity.
