Aspectuality and temporality : descriptive and theoretical issues / / edited by Zlatka Guentchéva

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828955803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Philadelphia] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (754 p.)
• Collana: Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS), , 0165-7763 ; ; Volume 172
• Disciplina: 415/.63
• Soggetti: Functionalism (Linguistics); Grammar, Comparative and general - Tense; Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Aspectuality and Temporality; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Part I. Theoretical issues; Part II. Grammatical encoding of aspectual and temporal distinctions; Part III. Indo-European aorist and Semitic aorist; Part IV. Perfects and resultatives; Part V. The Future in grammar; Part VI. Grammatical change; Acknowledgements; References; List of contributors; A cognitive and conceptual approach to tense and aspect markers; 1. Introduction; 2. Two principal linguisti; c analysis methods; 2.1 The inductive method through generalizations; 2.2 A network of abstract concepts by abductive method2.2.1 Remarks; 2.3 Grammatical category; 3. Aspect-tense markers; 4. Linear, cyclic and spiral time; 5. Notions, concepts, figures, diagrams; 6. The basic concepts of temporality as expressed cross-linguistically; 6.1 Enunciative temporal frame of reference; 6.2 State, event, process; 6.3 The enunciative act is an incomplete process; 6.4 Decomposition of a situation into different phases; 6.5 Semantic map of the principal aspectual concepts; 7. Temporal relations and temporal frames of reference; 7.1 Temporal relations in the enunciative temporal frame7.2 Different temporal frames of reference; 7.3 Abstract reference system; 8. Conclusions; References; Tense, aspect and mood in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia): Encoding events, processes and states; 1. Introduction: A brief presentation of Nêlêmwa; 2. Theoretical framework and terminology; 3. Tense, mood and aspect: An overview; 3.1 Temporal frame of reference and chronological ordering of events; 3.2 Irrealis and realis moods; 3.3 An overview of aspect markers: combinations and position; 3.3.1 Events in the bare aorist verb form; 3.3.2 Aspect markers: perfect, recent completion, pluri-actional, incompletion3.3.3 Other aspect markers; 3.3.4 Position of aspect markers; 3.4 Combination of aspect markers; 3.4.1 Combination of the perfect (k)u ~ (x)u and other aspect markers; 3.4.2 Combination of irrealis morphemes with the perfect; 3.4.3 Combination of irrealis morphemes with other aspect markers; 4. Irrealis mood; 4.1 Future, prospective: io ~ e; 4.2 The virtual marker o; 4.2.1 Virtual marker o in imperative, hortative and optative sentences; 4.2.2 The morpheme o in dependent/subordinate clauses; 5. The perfect: Definition and use in realis and irrealis frames5.1 The perfect in realis frames: relevance to the time of speech and narrative uses; 5.1.1 Past event relevant to the time of speech; 5.1.2 Completed process in the past temporal frame of a narrative; 5.2 The perfect with stative verbs: change of state; 5.3 Graded change of state and evolutive process with the perfect; 5.4 Respective uses of the perfect (k)u ~ (x)u vs. the bare aorist form; 5.5 The perfect in chronologically ordered events and relative time constructions; 5.6 The perfect with reference to some imminent event or to the imminent completion of a process