Tense across languages / Renate Musan, Monika Rathert (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Musan, Renate, 1963-

Rathert, Monika, 1972-

Series:

Linguistische Arbeiten

Linguistische arbeiten ; 541

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Temporal constructions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book addresses recent developments in the study of tense from a cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic point of view. Leading international scholars explore challenging ideas about tense at the interfaces between semantics and syntax as well as syntax and morphology. The book is divided into three main subsections: 1) Tense in tenseless languages; 2) Tense, mood, and modality, and 3) Descriptive approaches to some tense phenonema. Although time is a universal dimension of the human experience, some languages encode reference to time without any grammatical tense morphology of the verb. Some of these exceptional "tenseless" languages are investigated in this volume: Kalaallisut, Paraguayan Guaraní and Movima. Modal verbs are polyfunctional in the sense that they express both tense and modality. In this volume, an untypical modal is analyzed, a modal analysis of imperatives is argued for, and sentential mood, which is closely related to modality, is analyzed. It is always interesting to look at the expression of tense in understudied languages, which is done here for Scottish Gaelic, Austronesian Rukai and German dialects. The volume can be used for graduate and undergraduate level teaching

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Tense across Languages - an Introduction / Musan, Renate / Rathert, Monika

A. Tense, mood, and modality

Tense and Volitionality / Remberger, Eva-Maria

Imperatives and Tense / Schwager, Magdalena

(Non)veridicality and Mood Choice: Subjunctive, Polarity, and Time / Giannakidou, Anastasia

B. Understudied Tense Phenomena and Typological Variation

Use and Temporal Interpretation of the Rukai Future Tense / Chen, Cheng-Fu

Tense in the Scottish Gaelic Verbal System / Landgraf, Julia

New Perspectives on Double Perfect Constructions in German / Rödel, Michael

C. Tense in Tenseless Languages and Sequence-of-tense Phenomena

Time and Modality without Tenses or Modals / Bittner, Maria

Tense Marking on Dependent Nominals in Movima / Haude, Katharina

The Paraguayan Guaraní Future Marker -ta: Formal Semantics and Cross Linguistic Comparison / Tonhauser, Judith

Zero-Tense vs. Indexical Construals of the Present in French L1 / Demirdache, Hamida / Lungu, Oana

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613430564

9781283430562

1283430568

9783110267020

3110267020

OCLC:

768474078