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Tense and aspect : from semantics to morphosyntax / Alessandra Giorgi and Fabio Pianesi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giorgi, Alessandra, author.
- Pianesi, Fabio, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in comparative syntax
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework and compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones. In the OXFORD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE SYNTAX series.
- Contents:
- Contents; Symbols; Introduction; 1. The Syntactic and Semantic Background; 2. On the Italian, Latin, and Portuguese Temporal Systems; 3. The Present Perfect in Germanic and Romance; 4. The Present and Imperfect in Germanic and Romance; 5. On the Semantics and Morphosyntax of the Italian Subjunctive; 6. The Double Accessibility Reading in Italian and English; References; Author Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772260-1
- 1-280-52762-5
- 0-19-535788-4
- 1-4294-1549-5
- OCLC:
- 476012532
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