http://hdl.handle.net/10900/93789 2026-05-12T15:02:49Z 2026-05-12T15:02:49Z Bochnak, M. Ryan Butt, Miriam Meertens, Erlinde Zymla, Mark-Matthias http://hdl.handle.net/10900/95502 2019-12-06T02:05:00Z 2019-12-05T00:00:00Z

Proceedings of TripleA 5 Bochnak, M. Ryan; Butt, Miriam; Meertens, Erlinde; Zymla, Mark-Matthias Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages

2019-12-05T00:00:00Z Marquardt, Christine Schwarzer, Marie-Luise Tebay, Sören Eggert http://hdl.handle.net/10900/95500 2019-12-09T10:34:18Z 2019-12-05T00:00:00Z

The Perfect in Mee: New Evidence for a Result State Approach Marquardt, Christine; Schwarzer, Marie-Luise; Tebay, Sören Eggert In this paper, we present new evidence for a result state analysis of the perfect. In Mee (Trans-New-Guinea, Indonesia) the perfect combines a resultative and a universal reading, excluding the experiential one. This contrasts with graded past markers in the language. We argue that only an analysis that makes direct reference to the result state can correctly derive the data.

2019-12-05T00:00:00Z Krajinović, Ana http://hdl.handle.net/10900/95496 2019-12-09T10:28:11Z 2019-12-05T00:00:00Z

The semantics of perfect in Nafsan and implications for typology Krajinović, Ana This paper offers an analysis of the semantics of the perfect in Nafsan (South Efate) and argues for several implications for the typology of the perfect aspect. I show that all the functions of the perfect in Nafsan can be derived from placing the Topic Time in the posttime of the event in question, equal to Klein (1994) analysis of the English perfect. The main typological implications discussed within this analysis are: a) perfect in a tenseless language can have present, past, and future perfect readings, b) the interpretation of change of state can arise with perfects through aspectual coercion of states, c) duality with negation can arise as a consequence of the aspectual coercion process and not necessarily from the meaning of ‘already’. These three points are taken to argue against the proposed typological category of “iamitive” that unites the meanings of the resultative function of the perfect and ‘already’ (Olsson, 2013).

2019-12-05T00:00:00Z Kapitonov, Ivan http://hdl.handle.net/10900/95492 2019-12-09T10:01:30Z 2019-12-05T00:00:00Z

Degrees and scales of Kunbarlang Kapitonov, Ivan This paper discusses novel data from the non-Pama-Nyungan language Kunbarlang in the domain of degree semantics. I show these data to be problematic for an influential typological account couched within the degree-based framework by Beck et al. (2009). I propose an alternative that builds on the delineation approach in the spirit of Klein (1980), and in particular on recent developments employing measurement theory, such as van Rooij 2011b. The proposed solution both accounts for Kunbarlang data and offers a basis for an alternative semantic typology of comparative constructions.

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