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Cross-linguistic semantics of tense, aspect and modality /

In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology. However, only few studies combine semantic and typological research for a particular...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hogeweg, Lotte, Hoop, Helen de, 1964-, Malʹchukov, A. L. (Andreĭ Lʹvovich)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 148.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world / Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop & Andrej Malchukov
  • Incompatible categories: resolving the 'present perfective paradox' / Andrej Malchukov
  • The perfective/imperfective distinction: coercion or aspectual operators? / Corien Bary
  • Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe / Peter M. Arkadiev
  • Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments / Sergei Tatevosov & Mikhail Ivanov
  • The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la 'come' and Owà 'go' / Nicoletta Romeo
  • Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: on the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category / Rik van Gijn & Sonja Gipper
  • On the selection of mood in complement clauses / Rui Marques
  • 'Out of control' marking as circumstantial modality in St'át'imcets / Henry Davis, Lisa Matthewson & Hotze Rullmann
  • Modal geometry: remarks on the structure of a modal map / Kees de Schepper & Joost Zwarts
  • Acquisitive modals / Johan van der Auwera, Petar Kehayov & Alice Vittrant
  • Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries / Ad Foolen & Helen de Hoop
  • Modality and context dependence / Fabrice Nauze
  • Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity: Russian genitive objects / Barbara H. Partee & Vladimir Borschev
  • The Estonian partitive evidential: Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories / Anne Tamm
  • Index.