Iteration, habituality and verb form semantics

  • Authors:
  • Frank van Eynde

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • EACL '87 Proceedings of the third conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

The verb forms are often claimed to convey two kinds of information:1. whether the event described in a sentence is present, past or future (= deictic information.2. whether the event described in a sentence is presented, as completed, going on, just starting or being finished (= aspectual information)It will be demonstrated in this paper that one has to add a third component to the analysis of verb form meanings, namely whether or not they express habituality.The framework of the analysis is model-theoretic semantics.