Cross-linguistic semantics of tense, aspect and modality / edited by Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop, Andrej Malchukov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hogeweg, Lotte.

Hoop, Helen de, 1964-

Malchukov, A. L. (Andrei Lvovich)

Series:

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; 148

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Temporal constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Aspect.

Modality (Linguistics).

Semantics, Comparative.

Physical Description:

vi, 406 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This article shows that the Estonian partitive evidential marks predicates in sentences that express incomplete evidence. Partitive occurs in the categories of aspect, epistemic modality, and evidentiality, marking objects and present participles. Despite the difference in syntax, the semantics of these categories is based on parallel relationships. More specifically, the aspectual partitive marks objects in sentences describing incomplete events, and the partitive evidential appears in sentences that encode incomplete evidence compared to the expectation of complete evidence.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-44496-4

9786612444968

90-272-8893-3

OCLC:

593287059