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Temporality in Bengali: A Syntacto-Semantic Framework

Temporality in Bengali: A Syntacto-Semantic Framework. Samir Karmakar Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Overview. Structure of the Bengali Verb Morphology Syntactic Categories Semantic Categories Organizing Syntax and Semantics Outer Frame of Representation

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Temporality in Bengali: A Syntacto-Semantic Framework

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  1. Temporality in Bengali: A Syntacto-Semantic Framework Samir Karmakar Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

  2. Overview • Structure of the Bengali Verb Morphology • Syntactic Categories • Semantic Categories • Organizing Syntax and Semantics • Outer Frame of Representation • Inner Frame of Representation • The Proposal

  3. Structure of Bengali Verb MorphologyVerb – aspect – tensei - personi Examples: • kar-ech-il-o do-perf-past-3past • kar-ch-il-o Do-perf-past-3past • kar-t-Φ-o Do-hab-past-3past • kar-ch-Φ-I Do-impf-pres-1pres • kar-Φ-b-o do-?-fut-1fut

  4. Syntactic Categories: Verb Aspect Perfect (-ech-) Imperfect (-ch-) Habitual (-t-) Tense Past (-il-) Present (-Φ-) Future (-b-) Person First Second Third Semantic Categories: Situation Type Viewpoint Boundary Continuity Temporal Location Frame of Reference: now Proximity: [± Overlap] Direction: [± Precedence] Syntactic and Semantic Categories

  5. Organizing Syntactic and Semantic Information • Minimalist Program (Chomsky, 1995) • [XP Spec(…), [X' Head(X), Comp(…)]] • Semantics of Tense and Aspect • Reichenbachian Proposal (1947) • Semantics of Verbs • Situation Types (Vendler 1957; Dowty 1979)

  6. Semantics of Tense and Aspect • First Referencing (S-R relation) • Second Referencing (E-R relation) • Relations (Overlap, Precedence)

  7. Taxonomy of Situation & Situation Internal Structure

  8. Proposed Framework

  9. Constraint imposed by adjuncts

  10. VP-internal Aspect VP AspP VP Situation Type Adjunct Type

  11. References • Arche, M.J. (2006). Individuals in Time: Tense, Aspect and the Individual/Stage Distinction, Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing Co. • Chomsky, N. (1995). The Minimalist Program, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. • Dowty, D. (1979). Word Meaning and Montague Grammar, Reidel: Dordrecht. • Reichenbach, H. (1947). Elements of Symbolic Logic, New York: The Free Press. • Vendler, Z. (1957). Verbs and Times. The Philosophical Review, Vol. LXVI, 143-160. • Verkuyl, H. (1989). Aspectual Classes and Aspectual Composition. Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 12, 39-94. • Verkuyl, H (1993). The Theory of Aspectuality: The Interaction between Temporal and Atemporal Structures, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  12. Thank You

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