Cross-linguistic semantics of tense, aspect and modality

✍ Scribed by Lotte Hogeweg; Helen de Hoop; A L Malʹchukov

• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 416
• Series: Linguistik aktuell, Bd. 148
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology. However, only few studies combine semantic and typological research for a particular semantic domain (such as the papers in Bach et al. (1995) on quantification and Smith (1997) on aspect). This book brings together formal semanticists with a cross-linguistic perspective and/or those working on lesser-known languages, and typologists interested in semantic theory, to discuss semanti. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 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.
Abstract: In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology. However, only few studies combine semantic and typological research for a particular semantic domain (such as the papers in Bach et al. (1995) on quantification and Smith (1997) on aspect). This book brings together formal semanticists with a cross-linguistic perspective and/or those working on lesser-known languages, and typologists interested in semantic theory, to discuss semanti