Abstract In this introduction, we outline the research question underlying this special issue: how do languages express ʻalreadyʼ and related notions, and how does this relate to the typological debate around the typological validity of the proposed category of “iamitive”? We also present the four studies…
Abstract In this paper, I discuss the employment of expressions meaning ‘still’ to signal the negative counterpart of ‘still’, ‘not yet’, without an overt negator. I show that this phenomenon is found in languages from across the globe and that it surfaces in four recurrent types of environments, namely…
Actionality (also referred to by labels such as “lexical aspect” or “aktionsart”) is the semantic dimension that encodes the constituent phases and boundaries of situations. Despite its central role in aspectual interpretation, careful language-specific descriptions and typological surveys of actional…