Aspectuality and temporality : descriptive and theoretical issues / edited by Zlatka Guentchéva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guentchéva, Zlatka, editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; Volume 172.

Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; Volume 172

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Aspect.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (754 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Philadelphia] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together a collection of articles exploring tense and aspect phenomena in a variety of non-related languages: Indo-European (Albanian, Bulgarian, Armenian, English, Norwegian, Hindi), Hamito-Semitic (Berber, Zenaga Berber, Arabic varieties, Neo-Aramaic), African (Wolof, Langi), Asian (Badaga, Korean, Mongolian languages – Khalkha, Buriat, Kalmuck – Thaï, Tibetic languages), Amerindian (Yucatec Maya, Sikuani), Greenlandic (Eskimo) and Oceanian (Nêlêmwa). Each article is grounded in solid empirical knowledge. It offers an in-depth study of aspectual and temporal devices as manifested in many diverse and complex ways from a cross-linguistic perspective and seeks to contribute to our understanding of the domain under consideration and more broadly to linguistic typology and theoretical linguistics, especially the enunciative approach. The book gives readers access to a collection of data and is of particular interest to scholars working on aspectuality and temporality, on pragmatics, on areal linguistics and on typology.

Contents:

Aspectuality and Temporality; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Part I. Theoretical issues; Part II. Grammatical encoding of aspectual and temporal distinctions; Part III. Indo-European aorist and Semitic aorist; Part IV. Perfects and resultatives; Part V. The Future in grammar; Part VI. Grammatical change; Acknowledgements; References; List of contributors; A cognitive and conceptual approach to tense and aspect markers; 1. Introduction; 2. Two principal linguisti; c analysis methods; 2.1 The inductive method through generalizations

2.2 A network of abstract concepts by abductive method2.2.1 Remarks; 2.3 Grammatical category; 3. Aspect-tense markers; 4. Linear, cyclic and spiral time; 5. Notions, concepts, figures, diagrams; 6. The basic concepts of temporality as expressed cross-linguistically; 6.1 Enunciative temporal frame of reference; 6.2 State, event, process; 6.3 The enunciative act is an incomplete process; 6.4 Decomposition of a situation into different phases; 6.5 Semantic map of the principal aspectual concepts; 7. Temporal relations and temporal frames of reference

7.1 Temporal relations in the enunciative temporal frame7.2 Different temporal frames of reference; 7.3 Abstract reference system; 8. Conclusions; References; Tense, aspect and mood in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia): Encoding events, processes and states; 1. Introduction: A brief presentation of Nêlêmwa; 2. Theoretical framework and terminology; 3. Tense, mood and aspect: An overview; 3.1 Temporal frame of reference and chronological ordering of events; 3.2 Irrealis and realis moods; 3.3 An overview of aspect markers: combinations and position; 3.3.1 Events in the bare aorist verb form

3.3.2 Aspect markers: perfect, recent completion, pluri-actional, incompletion3.3.3 Other aspect markers; 3.3.4 Position of aspect markers; 3.4 Combination of aspect markers; 3.4.1 Combination of the perfect (k)u ~ (x)u and other aspect markers; 3.4.2 Combination of irrealis morphemes with the perfect; 3.4.3 Combination of irrealis morphemes with other aspect markers; 4. Irrealis mood; 4.1 Future, prospective: io ~ e; 4.2 The virtual marker o; 4.2.1 Virtual marker o in imperative, hortative and optative sentences; 4.2.2 The morpheme o in dependent/subordinate clauses

5. The perfect: Definition and use in realis and irrealis frames5.1 The perfect in realis frames: relevance to the time of speech and narrative uses; 5.1.1 Past event relevant to the time of speech; 5.1.2 Completed process in the past temporal frame of a narrative; 5.2 The perfect with stative verbs: change of state; 5.3 Graded change of state and evolutive process with the perfect; 5.4 Respective uses of the perfect (k)u ~ (x)u vs. the bare aorist form; 5.5 The perfect in chronologically ordered events and relative time constructions

5.6 The perfect with reference to some imminent event or to the imminent completion of a process

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.