Cross-linguistic semantics of tense, aspect and modality
By: edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop, Andrej Malchukov.
Contributors: Hogeweg, Lotte.; Hoop, Helen de, 1964-; Malʹchukov, A. L.
Series: Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today -- v. 148
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027255310
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Aspect; Modality (Linguistics); Semantics, Comparative
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world / Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop & Andrej Malchukov; title: 2. Incompatible categories: Resolving the 'present perfective paradox' / Andrej L. Malchukov; title: 3. The perfective/imperfective distinction: Coercion or aspectual operators? / Corien Bary; title: 4. Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe / Peter M. Arkadiev; title: 5. Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments / Sergei Tatevosov & Mikhail Ivanov; title: 6. The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la 'come' and .wà 'go' / Nicoletta Romeo; title: 7. Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: On the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category / Rik van Gijn & Sonja Gipper; title: 8. On the selection of mood in complement clauses / Rui Marques; title: 9. 'Out of control' marking as circumstantial modality in St'át'imcets / Henry Davis, Lisa Matthewson & Hotze Rullmann; title: 10. Modal geometry: Remarks on the structure of a modal map / Kees de Schepper & Joost Zwarts; title: 11. Acquisitive modals / Johan van der Auwera, Petar Kehayov & Alice Vittrant; title: 12. Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries / Ad Foolen & Helen de Hoop; title: 13. Modality and context dependence / Fabrice Nauze; title: 14. Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity: Russian genitive objects / Barbara H. Partee & Vladimir Borschev; title: 15. The Estonian partitive evidential: Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories / Anne Tamm; title: Index.