The primacy of aspect hypothesis and telicity: a double case study

• Autor(a) principal: Lessa, Adriana
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/32465
• topic: Aspect. Telicity. Primacy of aspect hypothesis. Aspectual compositionality. Language acquisition.; Aspecto. Telicidade. Hipótese da primazia do aspecto. Composicionalidade aspectual. Aquisição da linguagem.

This paper debates the linguistic representation of aspect based on a double language acquisition study case with data on the association of lexicaland grammatical aspect. Its main objective is to evaluate the primacy of aspect hypothesis, according to which tense-aspect markers are limited tosome lexical aspect classes of verbs. In order to do so, it tests the hypothesis that, in the language acquisition process, the association between lexicaland grammatical aspect is anchored on the relationship between telicity and perfectivity. Based on data analysis, the primacy of aspect hypothesiscould not be completely refuted. However, considering different theoretical proposals on the semantic properties of the VP, we refute the hypothesisthat primacy of aspect is anchored in the relationship between telicity and perfectivity, considering different proposals of semantic aspectualclassification. We also demonstrate through data analysis the appropriateness of the proposal of telicity as being concerned with the internal syntaxof the VP. Finally, we argue that there would be no compositional reading of aspect in the initial stages of language acquisition.