Tense, aspect, modality, and evidentiality crosslinguistic perspectives
"After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a variety of original contributions that are firmly empirically-grounded based on elicited or corpus data, while adopting different theoretical frame...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company
[2018]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Studies in Language Companion ; v. 197. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40584070*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: On the gradience of TAM-E categories / Dalila Ayoun, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari
- A quantitative perspective on modality and future tense in French and German / Annalena Hütsch
- The temporal uses of French devoir and Estonian pidama ("must") / Anu Treikelder and Marri Amon
- The competition between the present conditional and the prospective imperfect in French over the centuries: First results / Jacques Bres, Sascha Diwersy and Giancarlo Luxardo
- Evidentiality and the TAM systems in English and Spanish: A cognitive and cross-linguistic perspective / Juana I. Marín Arrese
- Expressing sources of information, knowledge and belief in English and Spanish informative financial texts / Marta Carretero and Yolanda Berdasco-Gancedo
- Evidentiality and epistemic modality in Old Catalan: A diachronic cognitive approach to the semantics of modal verbs / Andreu Sentí
- "I think": An enunciative and corpus-based perspective / Graham Ranger
- Embedding evidence in Tagalog and German: On two types of evidentials / Jennifer Tan and Johannes Mursell
- Questions as indirect speech acts in surprise contexts / Agnès Celle
- Non-finiteness, complementation and evidentiality: The Lithuanian Accusativus cum Participio in a cross-linguistic perspective / Aurelija Usoniene, Nigel Vincent
- The perfect in Avar and Andi: Cross-linguistic variation among two closely-related East Caucasian languages / Samira Verhees
- The different grammars of event singularisation: A cross-linguistic corpus study / Eric Corre
- Phraseological usage patterns of past tenses: A corpus-driven look on French passé composé and imparfait / Oliver Wicher
- Path scales: Directed-motion verbs, prepositions and telicity in European Portuguese / António José Rodriguez Leal, Fátima Oliveira and Purificação Silvano.
