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Title:

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

Publisher:

Mouton de Gruyter,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Grammar, Comparative and general--Temporal constructions
Modality (Linguistics)
Semantics

Other Authors:

Saussure, Louis de.
Moeschler, Jacques.
Pusk©Łs, Genoveva

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Bj©œrn Rothstein -- The pass©♭ 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.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs 185

ISBN:

3110195259 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9783110195255 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)167506502

LCCN:

2007035001

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)