Recent advances in the syntax and semantics of tense, aspect and modality / edited by Louis de Saussure, Jacques Moeschler, Genoveva Puskás.

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Other Authors: Saussure, Louis de, Moeschler, Jacques, Puskás, Genoveva
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2007.
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 185.
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Table of 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.