Aspect, Adverbs, and Events

Abstract

Abstract Aspect and quantification are clearly related and interacting phenomena; since it is possible to give a quantificational interpretation of aspectual values, we can look at aspect as one of the ways in which the quantificational force of sentences is established. Thus, it seems straightforward to include aspect in the class of A-quantification. But then an interesting question arises concerning the way morphologically realised aspectual features are related to other types of constructional quantification, like the adverbial one. This is our main concern in this chapter, and we tackle it by discussing two facets of the general problem. More precisely we (a) investigate the way in which explicit quantificational ad verbs interact with aspectual values and (b) examine whether one of these two features could (or should) be reduced to the other.

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