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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA. :
John Benjamins,
2011.
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| Colección: | Human cognitive processing ;
v. 29. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Theoretical foundations; The definition of modality; The English present; The organization of the German clausal grounding system; Grounding in terms of anchoring relations; Part II. Descriptive application; Some remarks on the role of the reference point in the construal configuration of "more" and "less" grounding predications; New current relevance in Croatian.
- Aspect as a scanning device in natural language processingPart III. Descriptive application; Imperfective aspect and epistemic modality; Communicating about the past through modality in English and Thai; The epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imparfait; Name index; Subject index.