Title: Recent advances in the syntax and semantics of tense, aspect and modality /
Authors: Saussure, Louis de; Moeschler, Jacques.; Puskás, Genoveva.
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general Temporal constructions.; Modality (Linguistics); Semantics.; Tijden (taalkunde); Modi (taalkunde); Aspect (taalkunde); Syntaxis.; Semantiek.
Contents: Modals, emotives, and modal subordination / Nicholas Asher and Eric McCready -- The past and perfect of epistemic modals / Ronny Boogaart -- Aspectual composition in idioms / Sheila Glasbey -- A modified ExtendedNow for the present perfect / Björn Rothstein -- The passé simple/imparfait of French vs. the simple past/past progressive of English / Arie Molendijk -- Sequence of perfect / Tim Stowell -- Temporal and aspectual variation in ARIs / Ricardo Etxepare and Kleanthes K. Grohmann -- Economy constraints on temporal subordination / Hamida Demirdache and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria -- Future time reference : truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication? / Kasia M. Jaszczolt -- When the present is all in the past / Pranav Anand and Valentine Hacquard -- Reference time without tense / Carlota S. Smith.