0545877 20230418204244.120210925235959.9 000695850000007 10.1515/stuf-2021-1046 35 s. P cav_un_epca*05458761867-831974621-657Walter de Gruyter aspectual classes aspectual pairing lexical aspect Papuan perfective-imperfective Timor-Alor-Pantar cav_un_auth*0414315 Kratochvíl F. CZ cav_un_auth*0414316 Moeljadi D. CZ cav_un_auth*0414317 Delpada B. ID cav_un_auth*0216188 Kratochvíl Václav UTIA-B Matematická teorie rozhodování Department of Decision Making Theory MTR MTR Department of Decision Making Theory CZ Ústav teorie informace a automatizace AV ČR, v. v. i. cav_un_auth*0101228 Vomlel Jiří UTIA-B Matematická teorie rozhodování Department of Decision Making Theory MTR MTR Department of Decision Making Theory Ústav teorie informace a automatizace AV ČR, v. v. i. http://library.utia.cas.cz/separaty/2021/MTR/kratochvil-0545877.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/stuf-2021-1046/html GA20-18407S GA ČR cav_un_auth*0397557 This paper describes the aspectual classes in Abui, a Papuan language of the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. Abui innovated a system of aspectual stem pairing, realized by consonant mutation, vowel grading, and rime mutation. Although stem pairing is widespread (about 61% of the verbs alternate), about 38% of our 1,330 verb sample are unpaired and immutable. Abui verbal stems combine with aspectual affixes, adverbs and auxiliary verbs, whose distribution is used here together with the stem types to describe aspectual classes, which are understood as lexicalizations of transitional possibilities of lexical items (e.g. inchoative-stative vs. inchoative-gradual.inchoative-stative). The paper takes the bidimensional approach to aspect distinguishing between properties associated with the perfective-imperfective system and other aspectual marking (cf. Sasse, Hans-Jürgen. 2002. Recent activity in the theory of aspect: accomplishments, achievements, or just non-progressive state? Linguistic Typology 6(2). 199–271). Combining the features of both types of aspectual marking, we construct in a bottom-up fashion the aspectual classes in Abui and also show that these may be further refined if contextual features such as valency or degree of change (affectedness) were included. A characteristic feature of the Abui system is the elaborate system of stative-inchoative verbs sensitive to scalar and change properties (e.g. instant vs. gradual). Abui telic verbs show sensitivity to the properties of the resulting state and are formally associated with stem alternation. WOS AI 60000 60200 60203 2022 5 RVO:67985556 http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0322778 cav_un_auth*0313917 Palacký University, Olomouc CZ S n.a. Article Language Linguistics C 22 52 0.65 38 2021 SCOPUS PUBMED 000695850000007 WOS cav_un_epca*0545876 STUF-Language Typology and Universals 1867-8319 2196-7148 Roč. 74 3-4 2021 621 657 Walter de Gruyter