Recent advances in the syntax and semantics of tense, aspect and modality / edited by Louis de Saussure, Jacques Moeschler, Genoveva Puskás.

Other author Saussure, Louis de.
Other author Moeschler, Jacques.
Other author Puskás, Genoveva.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter,
Description253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesTrends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 185
Contents Modals, emotives, and modal subordination / Nicholas Asher and Eric McCready -- The past and perfect of epistemic modals / Ronny Boogaart -- Aspectual composition in idioms / Sheila Glasbey -- A modified ExtendedNow for the present perfect / Björn Rothstein -- The passé simple/imparfait of French vs. the simple past/past progressive of English / Arie Molendijk -- Sequence of perfect / Tim Stowell -- Temporal and aspectual variation in ARIs / Ricardo Etxepare and Kleanthes K. Grohmann -- Economy constraints on temporal subordination / Hamida Demirdache and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria -- Future time reference : truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication? / Kasia M. Jaszczolt -- When the present is all in the past / Pranav Anand and Valentine Hacquard -- Reference time without tense / Carlota S. Smith.
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ISBN9783110195255 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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