Individuating and Ordering Situations in Bangla

• Authors: Samir Karmakar
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper investigates complex predicate and serial verb constructions to explore how the meaning construing capacities of different syntactic categories are determined by the underlying structure of the construal specific communicative intents. In doing so, I have discussed the role of participle in integrating the argument structures and lexical aspects into the resultant construal. It is also shown how the concepts, like sequentiality and simultaneity, remain significant in determining different types of grammatical constraints while construing an interpretation.

Keywords

EN

Aspect; construal; individuating; ordering; situation; temporality

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 69-84

Dates

published

2010-03-01

online

2010-05-04

Contributors

author

Samir Karmakar

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10010-010-0004-8