Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the old and the new world : : current research in tense, aspect, mood and modality / / edited by Chiyo Nishida and Cinzia Russi.

• Author: Colloque Chronos
• TeilnehmendeR: Nishida, Chiyo.; Russi, Cinzia, 1966-; Colloque Chronos (8th : 2008 : Austin, Texas)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Cahiers Chronos 25.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The present volume is a collection of fourteen original papers selected from those presented at the first US installment of Chronos: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality, which took place at the University of Texas at Austin in October, 2008. The volume serves as an excellent forum for international scholars working on expressions of on tense, aspect, mood and modality. It contains papers dealing with a diverse variety of languages ranging from well studied languages like English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese, to less known ones like Basque, Chamorro, Iquito, Australian English and Singlish. The originality and relevance of the individual contributions is highlighted by the broadness of the theoretical approaches they employ and the novel empirical data they examine. All the studies go beyond exploring issues strictly related to tense, aspect, mood and modality; rather, they cut across all main linguistics subfields, such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition and language evolution, thus attesting to how research on tense, aspect, mood and modality is vital to the better understanding of human language in general. This diverse nature of the volume will certainly appeal to broad audience.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Chiyo Nishida and Cinzia Russi -- Why imperative sentences cannot be embedded / Asier Alcázar and Mario Saltarelli -- Sporadic aspect as a pragmatic enrichment of dynamic root modality / Cécile Barbet and Louis De Saussure -- Tense-aspect acquisition meets typology / Pier Marco Bertinetto -- Discourse structure and the perfective evolution of the Australian Present Perfect : Some new hypotheses / Patrick Caudal and Marie-Ève Ritz -- Future time reference and irrealis modality in Chamorro : A study of preverbal para / Pilar Chamorro -- The syntax and semantics of infinitival yet constructions / Justin Kelly -- Cross-linguistic variation in temporal adjunct clauses / Yusuke Kubota , Jungmee Lee , Anastasia Smirnova and Judith Tonhauser -- On modal tenses and tensed modals / Brenda Laca -- The realis and irrealis distinction in the Iquito language / I-wen Lai -- Realis, factuality and derived-level statives: Perspectives from the analysis of Singlish got / Hiroki Nomoto and Nala Huiying Lee -- Behavior adjectives : Dynamic, agentive and unergative / Katia Paykin and Fayssal Tayalati -- A defence of the overlap criterion for distinguishing between the French gerund and present participle / Alain Rihs -- Locating Italian volere ‘to want’ and volerci ‘to be needed, to be required’ in the Verb-to-TAM chain / Cinzia Russi -- Ser and estar : Phrase structure and aspect / Karen Zagona.