Let me first restrict the empirical domain of the present paper to the aspectuality of the a-sentences
in (1)–(4). It will help me to clarify the terminology and to take away possible …

Sentences may pertain to states or processes or events. They may express duration, frequency,
habituality, and many other forms of temporality. How do they do this? It is the aspectual …

This book is a thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Utrecht. It was prepared
under the supervision of Prof. Dr. H. Schultink. I would like to express my gratitude to him …

The idea of a compositional treatment of aspectuality is gaining ground. As observed in my
1971-thesis the idea that the so-called Slavic aspect is neither exclusively a matter of verbal …

In this paper, I would like to discuss in some detail the so-called Vendler-classes which play
an important role in the linguistic and philosophical literature these days. Vendler breathed …

This paper discusses some of the ways in which the notion of compositionality is understood
in the literature. It will argued that on a strict (Fregean) view a verb has a constant meaning …

The present paper adopts as its point of departure the claim by Te Winkel ( 1866 ) and
Verkuyl ( 2008 ) that mental temporal representations are built on the basis of three binary …

The first aim of the paper is to show that under certain conditions generative syntax can be
made suitable for Montague semantics, based on his type logic. One of the conditions is to …

In his famous Elements of Symbolic Logic Reichenbach developed a tense-system applying
to English but also clearly meant to serve as a general model for the description of tense in …

Bringing together fifty years' worth of cross-linguistic research, this pioneering monograph
explores the complex interaction between tense, mood and aspect. It looks at the long way of …