Research Catalog

Title

Time and the verb : a guide to tense and aspect / Robert I. Binnick.

Author

Binnick, Robert I.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 554 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Europäische Kommission Europaweites Mobilitätsprogramm für den Hochschulbereich
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Tense
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Aspect
• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Semantics
• semantics
• pragmatics
• Aspekt Linguistik
• Werkwoorden
• Aspect (taalkunde)
• Tijden (taalkunde)
• Tempus
• Aspekt (Sprachwiss.)
• Aspekt (Linguistik)
• Vergleich
• Linguistique historique
• Temps (linguistique)
• Verbes
• Grammaire générative
• Aspect (linguistique)
• Tempus

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-523) and index.

Contents

Tense -- Ancient Theories of the Simple Tenses -- The Problem of Tense -- Tense in Greek -- The Greek Verb -- The Relations of the Tenses -- The Stoic-Varronian Theory of Tense and Aspect -- Traditional Theories of the Complex Tenses -- General and Rational Grammar -- The Problem of Complex Tenses -- Theories of Relative Tense -- Aspectual and Other Theories -- Tense in Non-Indo-European Languages -- Jespersen's Structuralist Approach to Tense -- Retrospective and Prospective Tenses -- Modern Theories of the Subordinate Tenses -- Mood and Tense -- Mood in Subordinate Structures -- Tense in Subordinate Structures -- Sequence of Tense Rules -- Non-finites and Tense -- The Uses of the Perfect Tenses -- Context and Autonomy -- Multidimensional Theories: Reichenbach and Bull -- Allen on the Futurates -- Beyond Theories of Tense -- Aspect -- The Problem of Aspect -- Slavic Aspect -- Aspect and Aktionsarten -- Opposition and Markedness -- The Analysis of Greek -- Explanation in Aspectology -- Aristotelian Aspect -- The Ontology of Situations -- States -- Activities and Events -- Telicness and Performances -- Phase -- Phase and the Aktionsarten -- Defining Aspect -- Formal Semantics of Tense and Aspect -- Theories of Semantics -- Referential Semantics -- Formal, Truth-Conditional Semantics -- Montague Semantics -- Semantic Interpretation -- The Formal Semantics of the Priorian Tense Operators -- The Present and the Future -- Semantic Interpretation of the Tense Operators -- Complex Tenses and Compositionality -- The Perfect.

ISBN

• 019506206X
• 9780195062069

LCCN

• 89071032
• 9780195062069
• http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35557701x

OCLC

• ocm20826169
• 20826169
• SCSB-8809721

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library