An Essay Concerning Aspect : Some Considerations of a General Character Arising From the Abbé Darrigol’s Analysis of the Basque Verb

411; "Maximi Planudis in memoriam", in: Generative Grammar in Europe (forthcoming). On 'possession' and location, cf. particularly Lyons, "A Note on Possessive, Existential and Locative Sentences", FL 3 (1967): 390-96, and the works referred to by him; and see further ch. 5. 9 On these and other possibilities, involving due and owe, see again Anderson, Grammar, 9.42. 10

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Preface CONTENTS 1. Darrigol and the Localist Hypothesis 2. Markers of Aspect 3. Informal Remarks on Tense and Asp 4. Darrigol's Hypothesis Generalized 5. Aspect as Existential References Index