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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Toward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics |
Subtitle of host publication | The Embodied Basis of Constructions in Greek and Latin |
Editors | Egle Mocciaro, William Michael Short |
Publisher | De Gruyter |
Chapter | 1 |
Pages | 16-41 |
Number of pages | 26 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783110616347 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783110616330 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Dec 2019 |
Keywords
- Aspect
- Cognitive linguistics
- Construal
- Iterativity
- Genericity
- Habituality
- Ancient Greek