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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781095103321

Titolo

Cross-linguistic semantics of tense, aspect and modality [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop, Andrej Malchukov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009

ISBN

1-282-44496-4

9786612444968

90-272-8893-3

Descrizione fisica

vi, 406 p

Collana

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; 148

Altri autori (Persone)

HogewegLotte

HoopHelen de <1964->

MalʹchukovA. L (Andreĭ Lʹvovich)

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Temporal constructions

Grammar, Comparative and general - Tense

Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect

Modality (Linguistics)

Semantics, Comparative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world / Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop & Andrej Malchukov -- Incompatible categories: resolving the 'present perfective paradox' / Andrej Malchukov -- The perfective/imperfective distinction: coercion or aspectual operators? / Corien Bary -- Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe / Peter M. Arkadiev -- Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments / Sergei Tatevosov & Mikhail Ivanov -- The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la 'come' and Owà 'go' / Nicoletta Romeo -- Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: on the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category / Rik van Gijn & Sonja Gipper -- On the selection of mood in complement clauses / Rui Marques -- 'Out of control' marking as circumstantial modality in St'át'imcets / Henry Davis, Lisa Matthewson & Hotze Rullmann -- Modal geometry: remarks on the structure of a modal map



/ Kees de Schepper & Joost Zwarts -- Acquisitive modals / Johan van der Auwera, Petar Kehayov & Alice Vittrant -- Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries / Ad Foolen & Helen de Hoop -- Modality and context dependence / Fabrice Nauze -- Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity: Russian genitive objects / Barbara H. Partee & Vladimir Borschev -- The Estonian partitive evidential: Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories / Anne Tamm -- Index.