Dual Aspectual Forms and Event Structure in Caribbean English Creoles

by Marsha Forbes-Barnett

This book tackles the divisive question of the Stative/Non-stative distinction by going straight to the root of the lexical items that have been at the heart of this discussion. It provides an analysis of property items (Dual Aspectual Forms) couched in the syntax-semantics interface eliminating the false dichotomy at the base of the controversy in the field and the suggestion that a lexical item needs be unambiguously Stative or Non-stative. What...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 101329341X
• ISBN13: 9781013293412
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"