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Starting from certain semantic categories (e.g. Temporality and Aspectuality), the seminar studies the 'morphological' categories Tense, Correlation, Aspect and Mood of the English verb, which are seen as based on privative binary oppositions. Similarly, the category of Voice is described in the context of building the information structure of a sentence. The discussion also includes the English noun with regard to the concept of countability, the category of Number and the phenomenon of (formal vs. notional) concord. Furthermore, the seminar takes a comparative look at how the concepts and semantic categories in question are grammaticalised in German. |
