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Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and the New World : Current research in tense, aspect, mood and modality

Author
Nishida, Chiyo
Published
Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012.
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1 online resource (330 pages).
Additional Creators
Russi, Cinzia, 1966-
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Contents
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Why imperative sentences cannot be embedded; Sporadic aspect as a pragmatic enrichment of dynamic root modality; Tense-aspect acquisition meets typology; Discourse structure and the perfective evolution of the Australian Present Perfect : Some new hypotheses; Future time reference and irrealis modality in Chamorro : A study of preverbal para; The syntax and semantics of infinitival yet constructions; Cross-linguistic variation in temporal adjunct clauses; On modal tenses and tensed modals. and The realis and irrealis distinction in the Iquito languageRealis, factuality and derived-levelstatives: Perspectives from the analysis of Singlish got; Behavior adjectives: Dynamic, agentive and unergative; A defence of the overlap criterion for distinguishing between the French gerund and present participle; Locating Italian volere 'to want' and volerci 'to be needed, to be required' in the Verb-to-TAM chain; Ser and estar : Phrase structure and aspect.
Summary
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 Oct.
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9789401208345 (electronic bk.)
9401208344 (electronic bk.)
9401208344
9042035595
9789042035591
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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