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

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Superior document:Studies in language companion series (SLCS) ; Volume 197
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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.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 pages).
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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.