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The Prominence of Tense, Aspect, and Mood

Author : D. N. Shankara Bhat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230522

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The Prominence of Tense, Aspect, and Mood by D. N. Shankara Bhat Pdf

In this monograph, the author argues that natural languages exemplify the language type by assigning prominence to just one of the three verbal categories of tense, aspect and mood.

Time and the Verb

Author : Robert I. Binnick,Robert I Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780195062069

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Time and the Verb by Robert I. Binnick,Robert I Binnick Pdf

This guide provides the reader with a broad perspective of grammar, from classical Greek and Latin to the latest proposals in formal semantics.

Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality

Author : Lotte Hogeweg,Helen de Hoop,Andre? L?vovich Mal?chukov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255310

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Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality by Lotte Hogeweg,Helen de Hoop,Andre? L?vovich Mal?chukov Pdf

Preface -- 1. The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world / Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop & Andrej Malchukov -- 2. Incompatible categories: Resolving the 'present perfective paradox' / Andrej L. Malchukov -- 3. The perfective/imperfective distinction: Coercion or aspectual operators? / Corien Bary -- 4. Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe / Peter M. Arkadiev -- 5. Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments / Sergei Tatevosov & Mikhail Ivanov -- 6. The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la 'come' and .wà 'go' / Nicoletta Romeo -- 7. Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: On the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category / Rik van Gijn & Sonja Gipper -- 8. On the selection of mood in complement clauses / Rui Marques -- 9. 'Out of control' marking as circumstantial modality in St'át'imcets / Henry Davis, Lisa Matthewson & Hotze Rullmann -- 10. Modal geometry: Remarks on the structure of a modal map / Kees de Schepper & Joost Zwarts -- 11. Acquisitive modals / Johan van der Auwera, Petar Kehayov & Alice Vittrant -- 12. Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries / Ad Foolen & Helen de Hoop -- 13. Modality and context dependence / Fabrice Nauze -- 14. Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity: Russian genitive objects / Barbara H. Partee & Vladimir Borschev -- 15. The Estonian partitive evidential: Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories / Anne Tamm -- Index.

Tense-aspect

Author : Paul J. Hopper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228659

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Tense-aspect by Paul J. Hopper Pdf

The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms of their syntactic and morphological realization. Nevertheless, their treatment in contemporary linguistics is often restricted and narrow based, often involving mere recapitulatoin of traditional semantic and morphotactic studies.The present volume arises out of a symposium held at UCLA in May 1979, in which a group of linguists gathered to re-open the subject of tense-and-aspect from a variety of perspectives, including in addition to the traditional semantics also discourse-pragmatics, psycholinguistics, child language, Creolization and diachronic change. The languages discussed in this volume include Russian, Turkish, English, Indonesian, Ameslan, Eskimo, various Creoles, Mandari, Hebrew, Bantu and others. The emphasis throughout is not only on the description of language-specific tense-aspect phenomenon, but more on the search for universal categories and principles which underlie the cross-language variety of tense and aspect. In particular, many of the participants address themselves to the relationship between propositional-semantics and discourse-pragmatics, in so far as these two functional domains interact within tense-aspect systems.

Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality

Author : Dalila Ayoun,Agnès Celle,Laure Lansari
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263902

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Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality by Dalila Ayoun,Agnès Celle,Laure Lansari Pdf

After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a variety of original contributions that are firmly empirically-grounded based on elicited or corpus data, while adopting different theoretical frameworks. Thus, some chapters rely on large diachronic corpora and provide new qualitative insight on the evolution of TAM systems through quantitative methods, while others carry out a collostructional analysis of past-tensed verbs using inferential statistics to explore the lexical grammar of verbs. A common goal is to uncover semantic regularities and variation in the TAM systems of the languages under study by taking a close look at context. Such a fine-grained approach contributes to our understanding of the TAM systems from a typological perspective. The focus on well-known Indo-European languages (e.g. French, German, English, Spanish) and also on less commonly studied languages (e.g. Hungarian, Estonian, Avar, Andi, Tagalog) provides a valuable cross-linguistic perspective.

The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect

Author : Robert I. Binnick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780195381979

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The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect by Robert I. Binnick Pdf

This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.

Crosslinguistic Views on Tense, Aspect and Modality

Author : Bart Hollebrandse,Angeliek van Hout,Co Vet
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789042017542

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Crosslinguistic Views on Tense, Aspect and Modality by Bart Hollebrandse,Angeliek van Hout,Co Vet Pdf

This Cahiers Chronos volume reports on new and ongoing research on tense, aspect and modality in which a variety of languages has been gathered. The languages discussed by the authors include (in alphabetical order): Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Spanish. The articles form a selection of the papers presented at the 5th Chronos Conference that took place at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in June 2002. We have categorized the papers into three sections: Tense, Aspect and Modality. Obviously, this ordering is somewhat arbitrary given that some of the papers cross these rather rigid boundaries, as they discuss the interplay of tense and aspect or tense and modality. This book is of interest for scholars in the field of semantics, logic, syntax, and comparative linguistics.

Tense and Aspect

Author : Philip J. Tedeschi,Annie Else Zaenen
Publisher : Brill
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UCSC:32106006325648

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Tense, Aspect and Action

Author : Carl Bache,Hans Basbøll,Carl-Erik Lindberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110883077

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Tense, Aspect and Action by Carl Bache,Hans Basbøll,Carl-Erik Lindberg Pdf

Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: the relationship between the amazing diversity of languages and the profound unity of language. Only if the true extent of typological divergence is recognized can universal laws be formulated. In recent years it has become more and more evident that a broad range of languages of radically different types must be carefully analyzed before general theories are possible. Typological comparison of this kind is now at the centre of linguistic research. The series empirical approaches to language typology presents a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. The distinctive feature of the series is its markedly empirical orientation. All conclusions to be reached are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. General problems are focused on from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Special emphasis is given to the analysis of phenomena from little known languages, which shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. The series is open to contributions from different theoretical persuasions. It thus reflects the methodological pluralism that characterizes the present situation. Care is taken that all volumes be accessible to every linguist and, moreover, to every reader specializing in some domain related to human language. A deeper understanding of human language in general, based on a detailed analysis of typological diversity among individual languages, is fundamental for many sciences, not only for linguists. Therefore, this series has proven to be indispensable in every research library, be it public or private, which has a specialization in language and the language sciences. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

The Grammaticalization of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality

Author : Kees Hengeveld,Heiko Narrog,Hella Olbertz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110519389

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The Grammaticalization of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality by Kees Hengeveld,Heiko Narrog,Hella Olbertz Pdf

This book brings together a series of contributions to the study of grammaticalization of tense, aspect, and modality from a functional perspective. All contributions share the aim to uncover the functional motivations behind the processes of grammaticalization under discussion, but they do so from different points of view.

Tense, Aspect, and Indexicality

Author : James Higginbotham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199239313

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Tense, Aspect, and Indexicality by James Higginbotham Pdf

James Higginbotham's key contributions to work on tense, aspect, and indexicality explore the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and present new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure. A precious resource for students of semantics and syntactic theory in linguistics and philosophy.

The Prominence of Tense, Aspect and Mood

Author : D.N.S. Bhat
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298737

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The Prominence of Tense, Aspect and Mood by D.N.S. Bhat Pdf

The book puts forth an exciting hypothesis for the typologist. Its major claim is that languages can generally be regarded as belonging to a tense-prominent, aspect-prominent or mood-prominent language type. This grouping can be based upon the relative prominence that languages attach to one or the other of the three verbal categories, namely tense, aspect and mood, by grammaticalizing the chosen category to a greater degree than others, and by making it more obligatory, more systematic and more pervasive than others. The grouping, however, involves a gradation, as is indeed the case with other typological groupings, with some languages manifesting the relevant characteristic more strikingly than others. There are several characteristics that can be correlated with the relative prominence that languages attach to verbal categories. For example, tense-prominent languages tend to have mostly active but not stative verbs. They also tend to keep adjectives as a distinct category, or group them with nouns but not with verbs. Verbal forms used for foregrounding generally belong to the most prominent verbal category. These and other similar correlations make this typological classification worth pursuing. The book also contains a descriptive study of the three verbal categories.

Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality

Author : Louis de Saussure,Jacques Moeschler,Genoveva Puskás
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198768

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Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality by Louis de Saussure,Jacques Moeschler,Genoveva Puskás Pdf

It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics. A large number of syntactic and semantic phenomena are concerned by the temporal-aspectual-modal level of representation: information about time, aspect and modality is part of virtually all sentences; inflexion is quite widely considered as the core of syntactic projections. Because of this very crucial situation and role in the sentence structure, temporal-aspectual and modal information concerns virtually any part of the sentence and this information has scope over the whole characterization of the eventuality denoted by the sentence. This book is an up-to-date milestone for the studies of temporality and language, in particular regarding syntax and semantics, but with incidental hints to pragmatics and theories of human natural language understanding. Through this very tight selection of 15 papers (originally delivered during the 6th Chronos colloquium), tenses, aspect and modality are investigated both at the descriptive and theoretical levels, involving many different Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages. The volume sheds light on a wide array of phenomena that remained too little explored until now. These include the following: modal subordination in Japanese, epistemic modals in Dutch and English in Free Indirect Speech contexts, aspectual readings of idioms, adverb-licensing with the German perfect, French imperfective past compared with English progressive past, infinitival perfect in English, Adult Root Infinitives, economy constraints on temporal subordinations, future modality, past interpretation of present tense in embedded clauses, and time without tenses in Mandarin and Navajo. The book is of interest to scholars and advanced students in the fields of linguistics (general linguistics, semantics, syntax) as well as philosophy and logic.

Variation and Change in Ancient Greek Tense, Aspect and Modality

Author : Klaas Bentein,Mark Janse,Jorie Soltic
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004315358

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Variation and Change in Ancient Greek Tense, Aspect and Modality by Klaas Bentein,Mark Janse,Jorie Soltic Pdf

In this collective volume, some of the leading experts in the field explore aspects of linguistic variation and change in one of the core areas of Ancient Greek grammar: tense, aspect, and modality.

The Evolution of Grammar

Author : Joan Bybee,Revere Perkins,William Pagliuca
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226086651

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The Evolution of Grammar by Joan Bybee,Revere Perkins,William Pagliuca Pdf

Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.