Perspectives on Aspect

Preface Affiliations Angeliek VAN HOUT, Henriëtte DE SWART & Henk J. VERKUYL: Introducing perspectives on aspect. Henk J. VERKUYL: Aspectual composition: Surveying the ingredients. Rebecca SMOLLETT: Quantized direct objects don’t delimit after all. Anne Marie DI SCIULLO & Roumyana SLABAKOVA: Quantification and aspect. Raffaella FOLLI & Gillian RAMCHAND: Prepositions and results in Italian and English: An analysis from event decomposition. Veerle VAN GEENHOVEN: Atelicity, pluractionality, and adverbial quantification. Hana FILIP: On accumulating and having it all. Perfectivity, prefixes and bare arguments. Christopher PIÑÓN: Adverbs of completion in an event semantics. Emmon BACH: Eventualities, grammar, and language diversity. Sergei TATEVOSOV: From habituals to futures: discerning the path of diachronic development. Hooi Ling SOH & Jenny Yi-Chun KUO: Perfective aspect and accomplishment situations in Mandarin Chinese. J.Michael TERRY: The past perfective and present perfect in African-American English. Janice E. JACKSON & Lisa GREEN: Tense and aspectual be in child African American English. Vivienne FONG: Unmarked already: Aspectual expressions in two varieties of English.