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Tense, mood and aspect : theoretical and descriptive issues /
This book is a collection of articles dealing with theoretical issues in the study of tense, mood and aspect, as well as with specific semantic and syntactic problems raised by linguistic expressions dedicated to these domains across a variety of languages. Through these papers, strong variations ar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | Cahiers Chronos ;
17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents; Introduction; The descriptive inadequacy of Reichenbach's tense system: A new proposal; The evaluation of aspectual distance, speed and progress; The grammaticalization of tense markers: A pragmatic reanalysis; Aspectual interactions between predicates and their external arguments in French; Alors as a possible temporal connective in discourse; The power of prepositions: Is he sleeping now or usually?; On the dual nature of the Catalan present perfect; Epistemic modality and questions in dialogue. The case of Italian interrogative constructions in the subjunctive mood
- In the mood of desire and hope: remarks on the German subjunctive, the verb second phenomenon, the nature of volitional predicates and speculations on illocutionDutch equivalents of the German past conjunctive: zou +infinitive and the modal preterit; Slavic verb prefixes are resultative; The acquisition of aspect in child Greek: A production experiment; The Thai cla: a marker of tense or modality?