Aspect and Construal: A cognitive linguistic approach to iterativity, habituality and genericity in Greek

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Abstract

This chapter analyzes the use of tense and aspect in iterative, habitual and generic expressions in terms of the cognitive linguistic notion of construal, i.e., the cognitive ability to conceive and portray a situation in alternative ways. It will be argued that tense and aspect use in iterative, habitual and generic clauses in Ancient Greek hinges on a number of specific construal operations: the capacity to construe a series of individual events as a holistic higher-order event, the capacity to construe an event as bounded or unbounded, and the capacity to view a situation from alternative vantage points.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationToward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics
Subtitle of host publicationThe Embodied Basis of Constructions in Greek and Latin
EditorsEgle Mocciaro, William Michael Short
PublisherDe Gruyter
Chapter1
Pages16-41
Number of pages26
ISBN (Electronic)9783110616347
ISBN (Print)9783110616330
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Dec 2019

Keywords

  • Aspect
  • Cognitive linguistics
  • Construal
  • Iterativity
  • Genericity
  • Habituality
  • Ancient Greek

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