Research Catalog

Title

Cross-linguistic semantics of tense, aspect and modality / edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop, Andrej Malchukov.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Hogeweg, Lotte.
• Hoop, Helen de, 1964-
• Malʹchukov, A. L. (Andreĭ Lʹvovich)

Description

vi, 406 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 148

Uniform Title

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 148.

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Temporal constructions > Congresses
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Tense > Congresses
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Aspect > Congresses
• Modality (Linguistics) > Congresses
• Semantics, Comparative > Congresses

Note

• Papers from the workshop took place in Nijmega, the Netherlands in November 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world / Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop & Andrej Malchukov -- Incompatible categories: resolving the 'present perfective paradox' / Andrej Malchukov -- The perfective/imperfective distinction: coercion or aspectual operators? / Corien Bary -- Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe / Peter M. Arkadiev -- Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments / Sergei Tatevosov & Mikhail Ivanov -- The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la 'come' and Owà 'go' / Nicoletta Romeo -- Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: on the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category / Rik van Gijn & Sonja Gipper -- On the selection of mood in complement clauses / Rui Marques -- 'Out of control' marking as circumstantial modality in St'át'imcets / Henry Davis, Lisa Matthewson & Hotze Rullmann -- Modal geometry: remarks on the structure of a modal map / Kees de Schepper & Joost Zwarts -- Acquisitive modals / Johan van der Auwera, Petar Kehayov & Alice Vittrant -- Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries / Ad Foolen & Helen de Hoop -- Modality and context dependence / Fabrice Nauze -- Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity: Russian genitive objects / Barbara H. Partee & Vladimir Borschev -- The Estonian partitive evidential: Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories / Anne Tamm -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 10-276

ISBN

• 9789027255310 (hb : alk. paper)
• 9027255318 (hb : alk. paper)
• 9789027288936 (ebk.)
• 9027288933 (ebk.)

LCCN

2009030824

OCLC

427757255

Title

Cross-linguistic semantics of tense, aspect and modality / edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop, Andrej Malchukov.

Imprint

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

Series

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 148

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 148.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hogeweg, Lotte.

Hoop, Helen de, 1964-

Malʹchukov, A. L. (Andreĭ Lʹvovich)

Research Call Number

JFE 10-276