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1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs, v. 185 |
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Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs, v. 185
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| Contents |
Frontmatter; Table of contents; Introduction; Modals, emotives, and modal subordination; The past and perfect of epistemic modals; Aspectual composition in idioms; A modified ExtendedNow for the present perfect; The passé simple / imparfait of French vs the simple past / past progressive of English; Sequence of perfect; Temporal and aspectual variation in ARIs; Economy constraints on temporal subordination; Future time reference: Truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication?; When the Present is all in the Past; Reference time without tense; Backmatter |
| Summary |
It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics. A large number of syntactic and semantic phenomena are concerned by the temporal-aspectual-modal level of representation: information about time, aspect and modality is part of virtually all sentences; inflexion is quite widely considered as the core of syntactic projections. Because of this very crucial situation and role in the sentence structure, temporal-aspectual and modal information concern |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions.
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Modality (Linguistics)
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Semantics.
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Semantics
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semantics.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions
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Modality (Linguistics)
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Semantics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Moeschler, Jacques
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Pusks, Genoveva
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| ISBN |
9783110198768 |
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3110198762 |
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