Author(s): Diego Mollá-Aliod
E-mail: diego@ling.ed.ac.uk
People can describe the same object in different ways, according to their needs. This fact can be used in the field of aspectual composition, since there are cases when a noun phrase determines the sentence aspectuality, whereas in other cases this interaction does not happen. In this paper a solution to the problem of aspectual composition is proposed. Here, verbs are considered event descriptions, and noun phrases are object descriptions. The aspectual properties are properties applying to these descriptions, and a link between the domain of events and that of objects is established. This link reflects our linguistic interpretation of world structure, and this is what controls the aspectual behaviour of any sentence.
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