Tense and aspect [[electronic resource] ] : from semantics to morphosyntax / / Alessandra Giorgi and Fabio Pianesi

• Autore: Giorgi Alessandra
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Germanic languages - Grammar, Comparative - Romance; Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general - Tense; Romance languages - Grammar, Comparative - Germanic; Semantics
• Altri autori: PianesiFabio
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-303) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Symbols; Introduction; 1. The Syntactic and Semantic Background; 2. On the Italian, Latin, and Portuguese Temporal Systems; 3. The Present Perfect in Germanic and Romance; 4. The Present and Imperfect in Germanic and Romance; 5. On the Semantics and Morphosyntax of the Italian Subjunctive; 6. The Double Accessibility Reading in Italian and English; References; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework and compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones. In the OXFORD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE SYNTAX series.
• Titolo autorizzato: Tense and aspect
• ISBN: 0-19-772260-1; 1-280-52762-5; 0-19-535788-4; 1-4294-1549-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777318003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford studies in comparative syntax.