Crosslinguistic Views on Tense, Aspect and Modality /

Crosslinguistic Views on Tense, Aspect and Modality / / edited by Bart Hollebrandse, Angeliek van Hout, Co Vet.

This Cahiers Chronos volume reports on new and ongoing research on tense, aspect and modality in which a variety of languages has been gathered. The languages discussed by the authors include (in alphabetical order): Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japa...

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Superior document:Cahiers Chronos ; 13
TeilnehmendeR:
Vet, Co,
Hollebrandse, Bart,
Hout, Angeliek van,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Cahiers Chronos ; 13.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Bart HOLLEBRANDSE, Angeliek van HOUT, Co VET: Introduction
  • Abraham P. TEN CATE: Descriptions of past events in German
  • Griet BEHEYDT: The absolute and the relative present tense with future time references in English and Dutch
  • Gretel De CUYPER: Noun phrases and temporal information in Dutch
  • Bart HOLLEBRANDSE: Sequence of tense: New insights from cross-linguistic comparisons
  • Lieven VANDELANOTTE: Tense in indirect speech and thought: Some proposed modifications
  • Fabrizio AROSIO: Points of time
  • Maria ASNES: Incompatibility between telicity and homogeneity in French
  • Patrick CAUDAL: Degree scales and aspect
  • Arie MOLENDIJK: The imparfait in French and the past progressive in English
  • Athina SIOUPI: Morphological and telicity aspect with accomplishment VPs in Greek
  • Henk VERKUYL: How (in-)sensitive is tense to aspectual information?
  • Teresa Cristina WACHOWICZ: The aspectual reading of the progressive form in Brazilian Portuguese
  • Zonghua XIAO, Anthony McENERY: Situation aspect: A two-level approach
  • Aoife AHERN: Mood choice and sentence interpretation in Spanish
  • Renaat DECLERCK: The relation between temporal and modal uses of indicative verb forms
  • Andrea ROCCI: On the nature of the epistemic readings of the Italian modal verbs: The relationship between propositionality and inferential discourse relations
  • Tom WERNER: The temporal interpretation of some modal Sentences in English (involving a future / epistemic alternation).

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