دانلود کتاب Aspectual Pairing in Polish

Aspectual Pairing in PolishThe received view on Slavic aspect is that it is intrinsically complex, and thatthere is little hope of discerning any substantial regularity. We argue that thisview is mistaken. We argue that the vast majority of Polish verbs really docome in aspectual pairs and that far from being a mysterious process,aspectual pairing in Polish is simple and regular. We introduce a classificationof Polish verbs that pins down the mechanism of aspectual pairing in Polish.Our classification is formationally-driven: we divide Polish verbs into basic fiveclasses on the basis of the patterns of aspectual affixation they enter into (wecall affixes used for aspectual purposes ‘formants’). But in spite of itsessentially formal nature, our aspectual classification reveals considerablesemantic regularity in the Polish verb system. Indeed, the classificationinduces temporal distinctions on Polish verbs, distinctions that look rather likeVendler-style distinctions. We formalise the distinctions with the tools ofmodal semantics.We describe the evolution of the Polish aspectual system, and show how ourclassification could have emerged diachronically. We present the history of thestudy of aspect and Aktionsart and locate where the approach to Polish verbpairs introduced in this thesis differs from what the reader will find in thevarious literatures on aspect. We also relate the ideas of this thesis to the ideasthe reader can find in the modern approaches to Slavic aspect written in thepost-Chomskian tradition.We hope that the work presented in this thesis will be useful to researchersinterested in aspect from both the Germanic and Slavic traditions.