<p>It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics. A large number of syntactic and semantic phenomena are concerned by the temporal-aspectual-modal
Syntax and Semantics, Volume 14: Tense and Aspect
β Scribed by Annie Zaenen, Stephen R. Anderson, Philip Tedesch (editor), John P. Kimball (editor)
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 329
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Tense and Aspect
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The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework. They compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones.
The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speakerβs reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms of
It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics. A large number of syntactic and semantic phenomena are concerned by the temporal-aspectual-modal lev