Syntactic and semantic analysis of phase verbs in English and Croatian

master's thesis

• Title: Syntactic and semantic analysis of phase verbs in English and Croatian : a corpus-based study
• Title (croatian): Sintaktička i semantička analiza faznih glagola u hrvatskom i engleskom : korpusno istraživanje
• Author: Leon Samac
• Mentor: Irena Zovko Dinković (mentor)
• Committee member: Marina Grubišić (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Ivana Bašić (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of English language and literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2022-09-23, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Anglistics

Abstract

This thesis presents a framework for the analysis of aspect, which consists of two basic interconnected but distinct subsystems. One subsystem concerns situation types, generally corresponding to aspectual notions such as states, activities, accomplishments etc., while the other subsystem concerns grammatical, or viewpoint, aspect. The value of the first subsystem serves as the input for the second subsystem. This framework is applied to the comparative study of syntactic and semantic characteristics of English and Croatian phase verbs, their complements and sentences containing them. The verbs analyzed are start, continue and stop, together with their Croatian equivalents, početi/počinjati, nastaviti/nastavljati and prestati/prestajati. The analysis is based on sentences containing phase verbs taken from the English Web corpus 2020 (enTenTen20) and Croatian Web corpus (hrWaC).

Abstract (croatian)

U ovom je radu predstavljen okvir za analizu aspekta, koji se sastoji od dva osnovna povezana, ali zasebna, podsustava. Prvi se podsustav tiče vrsta situacije, koje općenito odgovaraju aspektnim pojmovima kao što su stanja, aktivnosti, ostvarivanja itd., a drugi se podsustav tiče gramatičkog aspekta, tj. aspekta gledišta. Vrijednost prvog podsustava unosi se u drugi podsustav. Taj je okvir primijenjen na komparativno istraživanje engleskih i hrvatskih faznih glagola, njihove dopune i rečenice koje ih sadržavaju. Analizirani su glagoli 'start', 'continue' i 'stop', zajedno s hrvatskim ekvivalentima 'početi/počinjati', 'nastaviti/nastavljati' i 'prestati/prestajati'. Analiza se temelji na rečenicama sa faznim glagolima preuzetima iz korpusa English Web corpus (enTenTen20) i Croatian Web corpus (hrWaC).

• Keywords: aspect; viewpoint aspect; situation type; phase verbs
• Keywords (croatian): aspekt; aspekt gledišta; vrsta situacije; fazni glagoli
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:619029
• Study programme: Title: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation, TEFL; Course: Linguistics; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
• Type of resource: Text
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• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2022-09-27 07:35:24