{"id":7089,"date":"2015-03-16T05:05:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T09:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2015-03-15T19:43:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T23:43:50","slug":"lfrg-315-benjamin-storme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/03\/16\/lfrg-315-benjamin-storme\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 3\/16 - Benjamin Storme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Speaker: <strong>Benjamin Storme<\/strong> (MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Aspectual asymmetries across tenses<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Monday, 3\/16, 12-1:30<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D831<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It has been observed that languages typically have a richer aspectual morphology (in particular, to express the perfective\/progressive distinction shown in (1) in English) in the past than in the present (for instance, Comrie 1976).<\/p>\n<p>(1)   a. At 8 pm, I was jumping. (progressive)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\n     b. At 8 pm, I jumped. (perfective) <\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I discuss two approaches to this asymmetry, (i) a semantic approach, where the absence of a perfective\/progressive distinction in the present tense corresponds to a semantic incompatibility between present tense and perfective aspect, and (ii) a syncretism approach, where the perfective\/progressive distinction exists in the present tense, but only covertly. I argue in favor of the second option based on French data. I then propose an explanation of (i) why syncretism happens preferentially in the present tense and (ii) why the progressive is used as the underspecified form in case of syncretism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Benjamin Storme (MIT) Title: Aspectual asymmetries across tenses Time: Monday, 3\/16, 12-1:30 Place: 32-D831 It has been observed that languages typically have a richer aspectual morphology (in particular, to express the perfective\/progressive distinction shown in (1) in English) in the past than in the present (for instance, Comrie 1976). (1) a. At 8 pm, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7093,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions\/7093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}