Aspect in grammatical variation (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Aspect in Grammatical Variation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Grammaticalization paths as variable contexts in weak complementarity in Spanish; 3. Aspectual periphrases and syntactic variation in Brazilian Portuguese; 4. Aspect and the English Present Perfect; 5. Coding compositional aspect in French; 6. Breaking old habits; 7. Affairs of state; 8. A new methodology for the study of aspect in contact; 9. Expressing tense and aspect; Index; The Studies in Language Variation Series
The articles in this edited volume represent a range of approaches to studying the role of verbal aspect in grammatical variation. Issues addressed include: defining the variable context; operationalizing aspectual distinctions as factors conditioning linguistic variation; and the appropriate number of aspectual distinctions and levels. Apart from bringing to light various methodological and analytical issues, this volume gathers together a unique collection of original research, based on spoken- and written-language corpora, of an array of languages and linguistic varieties: African American