Cross-linguistic semantics of tense, aspect and modality [electronic resource] / edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop, Andrej Malchukov.
| Uniform Title: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 148. |
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
c2009.
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| Series: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 148. |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- 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.