Lexical and grammatical aspect in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease

• DOI: 10.26262/istal.v23i0.7355
• Publication Date: 2019-07-24
• Authors: Georgia Rumpea; Christina Manouil...; Stavroula Stavrakaki; Αναστασία Νούσια; Grigorios Nasios
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, lexical aspect, grammatical aspect

This study aims at investigating the ability of Greek-speaking individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) to comprehend produce verbs that vary respect their lexical grammatical aspect. Lexical aspect concerns situation types different temporal semantic features, such as activity ( run ), state know achievement break semelfactive hit accomplishment build ) (Smith 1997). Grammatical is divided into perfective I untied imperfective was untying (Comrie 1976). The interaction how might be affected by patients’ linguistic impairment also examined.