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Revisiting Aspect and "Aktionsart": A Corpus Approach to Koine Greek Event Typology

By Francis G. H. Pang

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2016
ISBN
9004310878, 9789004310872
ISSN
1877-7554
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1584719 bytes)
Series
Linguistic Biblical Studies 14
Pages
xii+300\313
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-07-14 06:49:00
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In Revisiting Aspect and Aktionsart, Francis G.H. Pang employs a corpus approach to analyze the relationship between Greek aspect and Aktionsart. Recent works have tried to predict the meanings that emerge when a certain set of clausal factors and lexical features combine with one of the grammatical aspects. Most of these works rely heavily on Zeno Vendler's telicity distinction. Based on empirical evidence, Pang argues that telicity and perfectivity are not related in a systematic manner in Koine Greek. As a corollary, Aktionsart should be considered an interpretive category, meaning that its different values emerge, not from the interaction of only one or two linguistic parameters, but from the process of interpreting language in context.

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