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Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect and epistemic modality /

This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Patard, Adeline, Brisard, Frank
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA. : John Benjamins, 2011.
Colección:Human cognitive processing ; v. 29.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is understood as indicating "a degree of compatibility between the modal world and the factual world" (Declerck). All contributions, moreover, tackle these problems from a more or less cognitive point of view, with some of them insisting on the need to provide a unifying explanation for all usage types.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (319 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027285218
9027285217
1283174839
9781283174831
9786613174833
6613174831