КОНЦЕПТУАЛНИТЕ НЕПОСЛЕДОВАТЕЛНОСТИ И ПРЕНЕБРЕГВАНЕТО НА КОМПОЗИЦИОННИЯ ВИД МОГАТ ДА ВОДЯТ ДО ПОРАЖЕНИЯ В АСПЕКТОЛОГИЯТА
CONCEPTUAL INCONSISTENCIES AND SIDESTEPPING COMPOSITIONAL ASPECT MAY WREAK HAVOC ON ASPECTOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a response to a publication in the 2022 Shumen University Yearbook which strives to explain aspect in several European languages, mainly English and Bulgarian but also French, Spanish, Italian. The attempt is generally unsuccessful despite the correct description of separate phenomena, e.g., Vendler’s aspectual schemata. The major flaw is the total disregard for the theory of compositional aspect in its different versions and for the phenomenon of compositional aspect itself – discovered half a century ago, in 1972, by the Dutch linguist Henk Verkuyl. The theory of compositional aspect, although frequently misconceptualized in linguistics, is universally recognized as the only approach that can adequately describe the phenomenon in languages that lack verbal aspect.

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