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Tense across languages /

This book addresses recent developments in the study of tense from a cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic point of view. Leading international scholars explore challenging ideas about tense at the interfaces between semantics and syntax as well as syntax and morphology. The book is divided into three...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Musan, Renate, 1963-, Rathert, Monika, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, 2012.
Colección:Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ; 541.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tense across Languages
  • an Introduction; A. TENSE, MOOD, AND MODALITY; Tense and Volitionality; Imperatives and Tense; (Non)veridicality and Mood Choice: Subjunctive, Polarity, and Time; B. UNDERSTUDIED TENSE PHENOMENA AND TYPOLOGICAL VARIATION; Use and Temporal Interpretation of the Rukai Future Tense; Tense in the Scottish Gaelic Verbal System; New Perspectives on Double Perfect Constructions in German; C. TENSE IN TENSELESS LANGUAGES AND SEQUENCE-OF-TENSE PHENOMENA; Time and Modality without Tenses or Modals; Tense Marking on Dependent Nominals in Movima.
  • The Paraguayan Guaraní Future Marker -ta: Formal Semantics and Cross Linguistic ComparisonZero-Tense vs. Indexical Construals of the Present in French L1; Index.