Tense across Languages /

Tense across Languages / / ed. by Monika Rathert, Renate Musan.

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This book addresses recent developments in the study of tense from a cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic point of view. Leading international scholars explore challenging ideas about tense at the interfaces between semantics and syntax as well as syntax and morphology. The book is divided into three...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Bittner, Maria,
Chen, Cheng-Fu,
Demirdache, Hamida,
Giannakidou, Anastasia,
Haude, Katharina,
Landgraf, Julia,
Lungu, Oana,
Musan, Renate,
Rathert, Monika,
Remberger, Eva-Maria,
Rödel, Michael,
Schwager, Magdalena,
Tonhauser, Judith,
HerausgeberIn:
Musan, Renate,
Rathert, Monika,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten , 541
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Physical Description:1 online resource (262 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Tense across Languages – an Introduction
  • A. Tense, mood, and modality
  • Tense and Volitionality
  • Imperatives and Tense
  • (Non)veridicality and Mood Choice: Subjunctive, Polarity, and Time
  • B. Understudied Tense Phenomena and Typological Variation
  • Use and Temporal Interpretation of the Rukai Future Tense
  • Tense in the Scottish Gaelic Verbal System
  • New Perspectives on Double Perfect Constructions in German
  • C. Tense in Tenseless Languages and Sequence-of-tense Phenomena
  • Time and Modality without Tenses or Modals
  • Tense Marking on Dependent Nominals in Movima
  • The Paraguayan Guaraní Future Marker –ta: Formal Semantics and Cross Linguistic Comparison
  • Zero-Tense vs. Indexical Construals of the Present in French L1
  • Index

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