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This course offers an introduction to the way in which languages talk about time and the temporal progress of events. Traditionally, we distinguish tense (as a way of relating times and events to the moment of utterance), morphological aspect (like the progressive or the perfect, which offer a specific “perspective” on events), and lexical aspect or aktionsart, which introduces an internal structure of events (e.g., events can be punctual or extended, they can terminate and/or introduce a change of state). On successful completion of this course, students will be able to understand central issues and research questions in the domain of linguistic temporality. |
