Index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Tense, aspect and Vendler classes
5. 1. Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events 13
6. 2. Telicity, atomicity and the Vendler classification of verbs 43
7. 3. Aspects of a typology of direction 79
8. 4. 1066: On the differences between the tense-perspective-aspect systems of English and Dutch 107
9. 5. Tenses for the living and the dead: Lifetime inferences reconsidered 167
10. Part II. Issues in Slavic aspect
11. 6. Formal and informal semantics of telicity 191
12. 7. Events and maximalization: The case of telicity and perfectivity 217
13. 8. Aspect and bounded quantity complements in Russian 257
14. 9. Negation, intensionality, and aspect: Interaction with NP semantics 291
15. Part III. Aspect in non-Indoeuropean languages
16. 10. Habituality and the habitual aspect 321
17. 11. Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora 349
18. 12. The syntax and semantics of change/transition: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese 387
19. 13. Bare nouns and telicity in Japanese 421
20. Index 441