Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe
- Author(s): Peter M. Arkadiev 1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
- Source: Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality , pp 55-82
- Publication Date November 2009
This paper deals with different components of aspectual interpretation in Adyghe, a polysynthetic North-West Caucasian language, and hierarchical relations among them. Following Tatevosov (2002), I propose a classification of Adyghe predicates into actional classes, and then show how this classification can account for the distribution of temporal adverbials. I argue that temporal adverbials in Adyghe are able to shift the lexically specified actional characteristic of the predicate (coercion in the sense of de Swart 1998) and thus constitute a separate level of aspectually relevant operators intermediate between lexical and grammatical aspect.
- Affiliations: 1: Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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