Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and the New World : : Current research in tense, aspect, mood and modality.
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...
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| Superior document: | Cahiers Chronos ; v. 25 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Editions Rodopi,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cahiers Chronos
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.