Title Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and the New World : Current research in tense, aspect, mood and modality

Published Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (330 pages) Series Cahiers Chronos ; v. 25 Cahiers Chronos. Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Why imperative sentences cannot be embedded; Sporadic aspect as a pragmatic enrichment of dynamic root modality; Tense-aspect acquisition meets typology; Discourse structure and the perfective evolution of the Australian Present Perfect : Some new hypotheses; Future time reference and irrealis modality in Chamorro : A study of preverbal para; The syntax and semantics of infinitival yet constructions; Cross-linguistic variation in temporal adjunct clauses; On modal tenses and tensed modals The realis and irrealis distinction in the Iquito languageRealis, factuality and derived-levelstatives: Perspectives from the analysis of Singlish got; Behavior adjectives: Dynamic, agentive and unergative; A defence of the overlap criterion for distinguishing between the French gerund and present participle; Locating Italian volere 'to want' and volerci 'to be needed, to be required' in the Verb-to-TAM chain; Ser and estar : Phrase structure and aspect Summary The present volume is a collection of fourteen original papers selected from those presented at the first US installment of Chronos: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality, which took place at the University of Texas at Austin in Oct Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense -- Congresses Grammar, Comparative and general -- Aspect -- Congresses Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mood -- Congresses LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Aspect Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mood Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Russi, Cinzia ISBN 9789401208345 9401208344

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