RT list: Question about verbal aspect and RT

 
Hello RT list,
I have a few questions and would appreciate any input. I am interested in
examining how notions of lexical pragmatics, cognitive pragmatics, and RT can
relate to ideas of the grammaticalization of verbal aspect in Koine Greek. Some
 people researching ideas of verbal aspect in Greek define aspect as: “the
semantic category by which a speaker or writer grammaticalizes a view of the
situation of a particular verb form in the verbal system. This is a grammatical
 category expressed by the form of the verb.”
If verbal aspect is as an encoded semantic category of a linguistic verbal
form, then from a RT perspective, should such grammatical aspect also be
considered to be a part of information stored in the encyclopedia entry? Or
perhaps part of the logical or lexical entry? Where exactly would such information
fall? If such information falls in either of these categories (as I am
inclined to believe depending on the situation), then I assume that it should also
be possible that the same flexibility that can be seen with instances of
broadening and narrowing in lexical pragmatics can also be extended to instances
displaying the grammaticalization of verbal aspect. I don't know, but I
suspect this is the case. Lexis is part of an encoded linguistic form, and it can
be shown that some terms can be either broaden or narrowed in various
pragmatic contexts. But, if verbal aspect is also a part of an encoded linguistic
from (sometimes attached to the lexis that may display flexibility), then should
 one consider that grammatical verbal aspect can also display such
flexibility as seen with lexis in lexical pragmatics? Would an idea of “
Grammatical-pragmatics” also be covered by ideas of “lexical pragmatics?” Any comments
would be helpful!
Thank you
Luis C. Reyes

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Received on Fri Nov 30 19:37:33 2007