Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect and epistemic modality / edited by Adeline Patard, Frank Brisard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Patard, Adeline.

Brisard, Frank.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; v. 29.

Human cognitive processing ; v. 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Modularity.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

[ix], 319 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This chapter explores the connection between past tense and modality in English and French. After arguing for a temporal definition of past tenses, I reinterpret the classical opposition between temporal uses and modal uses in terms of the speakers's referential or subjective intentionality. I further distinguish between the epistemic uses - which express the speaker's assessment of the probability of the denoted situation - and the illocutory uses - which express the speaker's degree of commitment in her speech act. I finally suggest an analysis of two epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imperfect, namely their conditional use and optative use, thanks to the notion of dialogism, which refers to the heterogeneity of the enunciative sources of a given utterance.

Contents:

Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Background

2. Overview of the contributions

3. Conclusion

References

Part I. Theoretical foundations

The definition of modality

1. Introduction

2. Terminological preliminaries

3. The definition of modality

4. Kinds of modalizers

5. Epistemic modality

6. The epistemic scale of specified factuality values

7. Root (nonepistemic) modality

8. World-evoking lexical verbs

9. Overview of modal worlds

10. Conclusion

The English present

1. The issue

2. Prerequisites

2.1 Conceptual semantics

2.2 Symbolic grammar

3. Temporal coincidence

3.1 Present perfectives

3.2 Non-present uses

4. Epistemic immediacy

4.1 General considerations

4.2 An epistemic model

4.3 Non-modal clauses

4.4 Modals

5. Conclusion

The organization of the German clausal grounding system

2. Deictic characteristics of grounding predications

3. Two basic kinds of construal configurations of the ground

4. German grounding predications

4.1 Temporal grounding

4.2 Modal grounding

Grounding in terms of anchoring relations

2. Temporal and epistemic categories within the framework of anchoring relations

2.1 Anchoring relations in three semantic domains

2.2 More on epistemic anchoring categories

2.3 Combinations of temporal, epistemic and volitional categories in the sentence meaning

3. Epistemic values of the Turkish 'present continuous' marker ‑Iyor#

3.1 The data

3.2 ‑Iyor# and epistemic contingency

4. Conclusion

Part II. Descriptive application.

Some remarks on the role of the reference point in the construal configuration of "more" and "less" grounding predications

2. Grounding predications: Conceptual structure

3. A more gradual view on grounding and its consequences

4. The German preterit subjunctive as a grounding predication

5. The status of werden + infinitive as a grounding predication

6. The status of würde + infinitive as a grounding predication

7. Conclusion

New current relevance in Croatian

2. Usages of the Croatian aorist

2.1 Narrative aorist

2.2 The aorist of recent actions

2.3 The aorist of proverbs

2.4 The aorist of future actions

2.5 The predominance of the first person singular

3. Current usage tendencies of the aorist

3.1 Current usage tendencies: The corpus

3.2 Current usage tendencies: Speakers' judgments

4. Discussion and cognitive analysis

4.1 The aorist and epistemic immediacy

4.2 The aorist and the moment of speech

4.3 Epistemic immediacy revisited: Two virtual planes

Aspect as a scanning device in natural language processing

2. The aspectual system in Arabic: An overview

3. Aspect in imagery

3.1 Aspect as an image-building tool

3.2 Aspect as a scanning device

4. Aspectual scanning: The case of Arabic

4.1 Scanning modes

4.2 Scope of awareness in aspectual representation

4.3 Aspect as a zooming device

Part III. Descriptive application

Imperfective aspect and epistemic modality

2. Imperfective aspect and subjectivity

2.1 Modal verbs

2.2 Counterfactual

2.3 Perspectivized discourse

3. Imperfective aspect and anaphoric temporal reference

3.1 The semantics of tense and aspect.

3.2 The subjective potential of imperfective aspect

4. Aspect and modality in Russian

4.1 Counterexamples to the imperfective-epistemic link

4.2 Discussion: Imperfective and anaphoric in Russian

5. To conclude

Communicating about the past through modality in English and Thai

1. The rationale and objectives

2. Time as modality

3. Merger representations

4. The modality of the past: Evidence from English

5. Possible uses of d1ay1II

6. A unified account of d1ay1II

7. Concluding remarks

The epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imparfait

2. A temporal definition of the SP and the IP

2.1 Past morphology means past

2.2 Tense and aspect

2.3 Definition

3. Remarks on the uses of tenses

3.1 'Temporal' versus 'modal' uses

3.2 'Epistemic' versus 'illocutory' uses

4. Dialogism and verbal tenses

4.1 The notion of dialogism

4.2 The dialogic uses of tenses

5. The conditional and the optative uses of the SP and the IP

5.1 Preliminary observations

5.2 A dialogic account

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613174833

9781283174831

1283174839

9789027285218

9027285217

OCLC:

741492865