I am so pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of STUF – Language Typology and Universals (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung), focused on the role of the lexicon in actionality, and guest edited by me, Johanna Nichols, and Bastian Persohn. It contains a great range of articles featuring new work from some of the most influential and innovative scholars currently studying the lexical dimensions of aspect. The papers are listed below.
This volume grew out of a workshop held at ALT 13 in Pavia (which I wrote about here) and also includes articles from several scholars who were not able to be with us at the conference. We are grateful to all of the authors and reviewers who generously participated in the volume and in the precipitating workshop.
Thera Marie Crane, Johanna Nichols and Bastian Persohn
Introduction: the role of the lexicon in actionality
Walter Breu
Actionality and the degree of temporal dynamics
Jurica Polančec
Two-phase verbs: a crosslinguistic look at an actional class
Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo
The robustness of Botne and Kershner aspectual classes in Nyamwezi
Leora Bar-el and Malin Petzell
(Im)perfectivity and actionality in East Ruvu Bantu
Sergei Tatevosov
Actionality across (sub)paradigms
František Kratochvíl, David Moeljadi, Benidiktus Delpada, Václav Kratochvíl and Jiří Vomlel
Aspectual pairing and aspectual classes in Abui