Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality.
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 lev...
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Series: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter; Table of contents; Introduction; Modals, emotives, and modal subordination; The past and perfect of epistemic modals; Aspectual composition in idioms; A modified ExtendedNow for the present perfect; The passé simple / imparfait of French vs the simple past / past progressive of English; Sequence of perfect; Temporal and aspectual variation in ARIs; Economy constraints on temporal subordination; Future time reference: Truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication?; When the Present is all in the Past; Reference time without tense; Backmatter.