2025/12/17 by Edit Rózsavölgyi, Rózsavölgyi, Edit
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Psychology · #Categorization, perception, and language #Hungarian #Italian #Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation #appearance #cognitive linguistics #second language acquisition
paper · doi:10.6093/1826-753x/12969
openalex publication_date 2025/12/17 · openalex created_date 2025/12/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
This paper, the second part of a comparative study on aspect in Hungarian and Italian, adopts a Cognitive-Functional and typological perspective to analyze the Italian aspectual system and its relation to the Hungarian one. Integrating insights from prototype theory and usage-based linguistics, it explores how both languages encode the conceptual categories of completeness and continuity through distinct grammatical strategies, synthetic and inflectional in Italian, analytic and constructional in Hungarian. The study highlights the cognitive and pedagogical implications of these typological contrasts for second language acquisition, proposing a contrastive approach that fosters learners’ metalinguistic awareness and conceptual flexibility in understanding and expressing aspectual distinctions.