The paper deals with the distinction, proposed by Plungjan 2004, between the denotative and the discursive approach to verbal aspect. The former, concerned with physical properties of the situations has an objective character. The latter is of subjective nature and corresponds to one of the ‘popular’ definitions of this linguistic category, according to which aspect allows for describing the same situation from different points of view. It is at the discourse level that the so called imperfective general factual appears, a well known though difficult to account for phenomenon in Slavic aspect descriptions. It refers to imperfectives of telic verbs expressing accomplished facts and as such is considered in competition with its perfective counterpart. At this subjective level the illocutionary force (which depends on speaker’s intentions and on context) can be focalized on different parts of sentence meaning: when its scope bears on the resultant state of a telic event, the perfective is used whereas when it is focalized on either some other part of verb meaning or on a different sentence component, the imperfective is used. Both levels, the objective and the subjective must be accounted for in an aspect theory.
Nell'articolo si è cercato di dimostrare che l’approccio denotativo all'aspetto, quello, cioe', che si riferisce alla maniera in cui un evento/ situazione occupa il tempo, ha un carattere oggettivo, essendo legato allo status ontologico delle situazioni. L’approccio discorsivo all’aspetto, invece, ha un carattere soggettivo e risponde ad una definizione frequente di questa categoria grammaticale secondo la quale la variazione aspettuale permette di descrivere la stessa situazione da punti di vista diversi. Il quadro generale presentato include entrambi gli approcci alla descrizione dell’aspetto, quello denotativo e quello discorsivo, postulati da Plungjan 2004 e consente di rendere conto in maniera relativamente unitaria di una serie di fatti relativi all’aspetto che hanno sempre rappresentato una difficoltà nelle descrizioni.
Scelta aspettuale “oggettiva” e “soggettiva” e l’imperfettivo fattivo / Gebert, Lucyna. - STAMPA. - 1(2014), pp. 319-331.
Scelta aspettuale “oggettiva” e “soggettiva” e l’imperfettivo fattivo
GEBERT, Lucyna
2014
Abstract
The paper deals with the distinction, proposed by Plungjan 2004, between the denotative and the discursive approach to verbal aspect. The former, concerned with physical properties of the situations has an objective character. The latter is of subjective nature and corresponds to one of the ‘popular’ definitions of this linguistic category, according to which aspect allows for describing the same situation from different points of view. It is at the discourse level that the so called imperfective general factual appears, a well known though difficult to account for phenomenon in Slavic aspect descriptions. It refers to imperfectives of telic verbs expressing accomplished facts and as such is considered in competition with its perfective counterpart. At this subjective level the illocutionary force (which depends on speaker’s intentions and on context) can be focalized on different parts of sentence meaning: when its scope bears on the resultant state of a telic event, the perfective is used whereas when it is focalized on either some other part of verb meaning or on a different sentence component, the imperfective is used. Both levels, the objective and the subjective must be accounted for in an aspect theory.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


