Non-culminating accomplishments: Subject, speaker and syntactic structure
(2021) Aspects of Tenses, Modality, and Evidentiality — ISBN: [978-90-04-46818-4], p. 100-135, accepted/in-press
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- This study aims to establish a relationship between the morphosyntax, the lexicon and conceptual patterns involved in the phenomenon of (non-)culmination. It is proposed that in the case of non-culminating accomplishments, the interaction between the syntax and the lexicon triggers a specific conceptual configuration which represents a goal-directed trajectory initiated by an intentional subject targeting the change-of-state of an object. The same configuration can also be viewed in a reverse order, going from the observation of a change of state to attributing a cause to this change. We propose that non-culminating accomplishments are palimpsestic structures that involve two points of view simultaneously: the prospective goal-directed perspective of the intentional subject and the retrospective perspective of the speaker.
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Vogeleer, S., & Guéron, J. (2021). Non-culminating accomplishments: Subject, speaker and syntactic structure. In L. Baranzini & L. de Saussure (eds) (ed.), Aspects of Tenses, Modality, and Evidentiality (p. p. 100-135). Brill. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/228563