Language Acquisition and aspectual compositionality

Authors

  • Gisely Gonçalves de Castro PUC Minas
  • Arabie Bezri Hermont PUC Minas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n3a19778

Keywords:

Semantic Aspect, Grammatical Aspect, Aspect Compositionality, Language Acquisition.

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between grammatical aspect and semantic aspect in the process of language acquisition. The hypothesis under consideration comes from Verkuyl (2005). Therefore, it will be argued that the observed usage pattern of aspect in child language results from a compositional interpretation of aspect. The results obtained were as follows: (i) the verbs [-ADDTO] had imperfective marking; (ii) the verbs [+ADDTO] had perfective marking; (iii) VPs [+ADDTO, -SQA] tended to be imperfectly labeled; and (iv) VPs [+ADDTO, +SQA] had perfective marking. The patterns found in the data indicate a compositional interpretation of aspect.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n3a19778

Author Biographies

Gisely Gonçalves de Castro, PUC Minas

Doutoranda em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais e integrante do grupo de pesquisa “Estudos em Linguagem e Cognição (ElinC)”.

Arabie Bezri Hermont, PUC Minas

Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais e Coordenadora do grupo de pesquisa “Estudos em Linguagem e Cognição (ElinC)”.

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Published

2018-12-30

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Vol. 14 No. 3 (2018): Studies on first language acquisition

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