Tense, aspect, modality, and evidentiality : : crosslinguistic perspectives / / edited by Dalila Ayoun, Agnes Celle, Laure Lansari.

• Superior document: Studies in language companion series (SLCS) ; Volume 197
• TeilnehmendeR: Ayoun, Dalila, 1963-; Celle, Agnes,; Lansari, Laure,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2018]; 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in language companion series ; Volume 197.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 pages).

Table of Contents

Introduction: On the gradience of TAM-E categories / Dalila Ayoun, Agnes Celle and Laure Lansari -- A quantitative perspective on modality and future tense in French and German / Annalena Hutsch -- The temporal uses of French devoir and Estonian pidama ("must") / Anu Treikelder and Marri Amon -- The competition between the present conditional and the prospective imperfect in French over the centuries: First results / Jacques Bres, Sascha Diwersy and Giancarlo Luxardo -- Evidentiality and the TAM systems in English and Spanish: A cognitive and cross-linguistic perspective / Juana I. Marin Arrese -- Expressing sources of information, knowledge and belief in English and Spanish informative financial texts / Marta Carretero and Yolanda Berdasco-Gancedo -- Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Old Catalan: A diachronic cognitive approach to the semantics of modal verbs / Andreu Senti -- "I think": An enunciative and corpus-based perspective / Graham Ranger -- Embedding evidence in Tagalog and German: On two types of evidentials / Jennifer Tan and Johannes Mursell -- Questions as indirect speech acts in surprise contexts / Agnes Celle -- Non-finiteness, complementation and evidentiality: The Lithuanian Accusativus cum Participio in a cross-linguistic perspective / Aurelija Usoniene, Nigel Vincent -- The perfect in Avar and Andi: Cross-linguistic variation among two closely-related East Caucasian languages / Samira Verhees -- The different grammars of event singularisation: A cross-linguistic corpus study / Eric Corre -- Phraseological usage patterns of past tenses: A corpus-driven look on French passe compose and imparfait / Oliver Wicher -- Path scales: Directed-motion verbs, prepositions and telicity in European Portuguese / Antonio Jose Rodriguez Leal, Fatima Oliveira and Purificacao Silvano.