Research Catalog

Title

Tense-aspect : between semantics & pragmatics : containing the contributions to a Symposium on Tense and Aspect, held at UCLA, May 1979 / edited by Paul J. Hopper.

Author

Symposium on Tense and Aspect (1979 : UCLA)

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hopper, Paul J.

Description

ix, 350 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This volume consists of articles based on contributions to a symposium entitled "Tense and Aspect: Between Semantics and Pragmatics" which was held on the U.C.L.A. campus in May, 1979. The participants were linguists, sharing some common assumptions about language in its relationship to communication and cognition. These submissions reflect the traditions of the series it continues: substantive rather than formal linguistics, an interest in language universals of both function and typology, a commitment to a broadly defined data-base drawing from cross-linguistic, diachronic, developmental, and discourse-pragmatic data.

Series Statement

Typological studies in language ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Typological studies in language; v. 1.

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Aspect > Congresses
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Tense > Congresses
• Modality (Linguistics) > Congresses
• Aspect (Linguistique) > Congrès
• Temps (Linguistique) > Congrès
• Modalité (Linguistique) > Congrès
• Syntaxis
• Semantiek
• Pragmatiek
• Tijden (taalkunde)
• Aspect (taalkunde)

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Tense and aspect in discourse ; Aspect between discourse and grammar : an introductory essay for the volume / Paul J. Hopper -- The discourse motivation for the perfect aspect : the Mandarin particle [italic]LE / Charles N. Li, Sandra A. Thompson, and R. McMillan Thompson -- The function of Inuktitut verb modes in narrative texts / Ivan Kalmar -- Aspect in conversational Indonesian / Ellen Rafferty -- II. The creation of tense and aspect ; Universals of aspect and parts of speech : parallels between signed and spoken languages / Lloyd Anderson -- Tense-aspect modality : the Creole proto-type and beyond / T. Givón -- III. Tense and aspect as cognitive categories ; Aspect, transitivity, and viewpoint / Scott DeLancey -- Tense, aspect and modality in the use of the Turkish evidential / Dan I. Slobin and Ayhan A. Aksu -- Figure and ground : the interrelationships of linguistic categories / Stephen Wallace -- IV. Tense and aspect as semantic and grammatical categories ; The "perfect" as a universal and as a language-particular category / Lloyd Anderson -- Remarks on English aspect / Ronald W. Langacker -- Invariance and the syntax of Russian aspect / Alan Timberlake -- V. Afterword ; On cross-linguistic categories and related problems : a discussant's notes on the tense/aspect symposium / Ranjit Chatterjee.

ISBN

• 9027228655
• 9789027228659
• 9027228612 (pbk.)
• 9789027228611 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^83101529^

OCLC

• 9971352
• SCSB-12832062

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library