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Chapter 6
Checklist of Key Notions
6.1 Argument structure, diatheses and alternations
- argument structure
- diathesis, alternation, voice
- core argument vs. oblique argument
- passive
- antipassive
- causative
- anticausative
- Levin classes
6.2 Situation structure
- situation structure
- accomplishment
- activity
- process
- simple change
- achievement
- simple occurrence
- state
- in-, for-, at-adverbials
6.3 Aspect
6.4 Tense
- tense
- time vs tense
- aspect vs tense
- present tense
- past tense
- non-past tense
- future
Artwork
- Figure 6.1 Structure of an accomplishment concept
- Figure 6.2 Structure of a process concept
- Figure 6.3 Structure of a simple change concept
- Figure 6.4 Structure of an achievement concept
- Figure 6.5 Structure of a simple occurrence concept
- Figure 6.6 Structure of a state concept
- Figure 6.7 Imperfective aspect and perfective aspect
- Figure 6.8 Perfect aspect
- Figure 6.9 Prospective aspect
- Figure 6.10 Past, present and future time
- Figure 6.11 Past perfective, imperfective and perfect (right)
- Figure 6.12 The verbal onion
- Table 6.1 Diagnostics for the dynamic aspectual classes
- Table 6.2 Semantic properties of aspectual classes
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