LSA 130
The Syntax and Semantics of Aspect

Readings for LSA 130

Requirements: three emails to us, one for each week, with a question pertaining to the class and feedback with respect to how the class is going for you and the topics you are interested in.

Week 1: Viewpoint Aspect and Aktionsart

Week 2: The Perfect

Readings on the Perfect (Week 2)

• Observations about the Form and Meaning of the Perfect - Iatridou, Anagnostopoulou and Izvorski (2001)
• On the Present Perfect Puzzle - Pancheva and von Stechow (2004)
• Sections 1 and 2 of Looking for verbal determiners - Iatridou (2005)
• Another Perfect Puzzle - Pancheva (2004)
• The Aspectual Makeup of Perfect Participles and the Interpretations of the Perfect - Pancheva (2003)
• Since Since - von Fintel and Iatridou (2002)

Week 3: Aspect and Modality

Readings on Aspect and Modality (Week 3)

• The Imperfective Paradox
  
  
  • Incomplete Events, Intensionality, and Imperfective Aspect - Sandro Zucchi (1999)
  • The Progressive in Modal Semantics - Portner (2000)
  
  
• Imperfective 1: The Progressive-Habitual Connection
  
  
  • Spanish imperfecto and preterito: Truth Conditions and aktionsart effects in a Situation Semantics - Cipria and Roberts (2000)
  • Ch. 4 of Marcelo Ferreira's dissertation (2005)
  
  
• Imperfective 1: The Habitual-Counterfactual Connection
  
  
  • The Grammatical Ingredients of Counterfactuality - Iatridou (2000) (esp. Section 5)
  
  
• Actuality Entailments
  
  
  • Actuality Entailments of Ability Modals - Bhatt (1997)
  • On being able to - Pinon (2003)
  • Aspects of Too and Enough Constructions - Hacquard (SALT Handout, 2005)
  
  
• The Perfect of Evidentiality
  
  
  The Present Perfect as an Epistemic Modal - Izvorski (1997)