Verbal and Nominal Aspectuality between Lexicon and Grammar (C07*)

• Subject Area: Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: from 2017 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 75650358

The aim of the proposed Project C7 is to investigate diatopic and diachronic variation of verbal and nominal aspectuality in Romance languages as well as Romance based creole languages. Our main attention will be on the interaction between grammar and the lexicon, in particular on the division of labor in the emergence and constitution of aspectual meaning. C7 will examine two closely related aspectual domains: In the verbal domain the focus will be on imperfectivity and progressivity, with special regard to progressive verbal periphrases, while the nominal domain will focus on the interac-tion between nominal aspect and the particular lexical class of superordinate object mass nouns, situated between count and mass nouns.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 833: Emergence of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Sarah Dessì Schmid; Professorin Dr. Wiltrud Mihatsch