Eintrag

Titel

Aspectual interpretation of early verb forms in German

Personen

Dagmar Bittner

Jahr

2003

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)

Ort

Berlin

Seiten

3 - 25

In

Acquisition of Aspect

Schlagwörter

Spracherwerb
Verb

Abstract

In the present paper, I will argue that even in a language like German, where the verb system does not contain a grammaticized aspect distinction, aspectual features do underlie the early form-function-mapping of verb forms in L1-acquisition. Furthermore, it will be argued that it is not only past tense forms that may receive an aspectual interpretation in early child language but also other forms of the verbal input. In the case of German, these are the forms of the present tense paradigm and the past participle. Showing and discussing various pieces of evidence for this assumption should strengthen the ¿aspect before tense¿ or ¿primacy of aspect¿ hypothesis. In general, the paper aims at a deeper understanding of the hierarchical relation between tense and aspect whereby aspect is the basic category and, therefore, aspectual features are the inevitable starting point of the acquisition of grammar.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/33984