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Recent advances in the syntax and semantics of tense, aspect and modality [electronic resource] /

by Saussure, Louis de; Moeschler, Jacques; Pusk�as, Genoveva; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Trends in linguisticsStudies and monographs: 185.Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007Description: 253 p. : ill.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions | Modality (Linguistics) | Semantics | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Modals, emotives, and modal subordination / Nicholas Asher and Eric McCready -- The past and perfect of epistemic modals / Ronny Boogaart -- Aspectual composition in idioms / Sheila Glasbey -- A modified ExtendedNow for the present perfect / Bj�orn Rothstein -- The pass�e simple/imparfait of French vs. the simple past/past progressive of English / Arie Molendijk -- Sequence of perfect / Tim Stowell -- Temporal and aspectual variation in ARIs / Ricardo Etxepare and Kleanthes K. Grohmann -- Economy constraints on temporal subordination / Hamida Demirdache and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria -- Future time reference : truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication? / Kasia M. Jaszczolt -- When the present is all in the past / Pranav Anand and Valentine Hacquard -- Reference time without tense / Carlota S. Smith.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modals, emotives, and modal subordination / Nicholas Asher and Eric McCready -- The past and perfect of epistemic modals / Ronny Boogaart -- Aspectual composition in idioms / Sheila Glasbey -- A modified ExtendedNow for the present perfect / Bj�orn Rothstein -- The pass�e simple/imparfait of French vs. the simple past/past progressive of English / Arie Molendijk -- Sequence of perfect / Tim Stowell -- Temporal and aspectual variation in ARIs / Ricardo Etxepare and Kleanthes K. Grohmann -- Economy constraints on temporal subordination / Hamida Demirdache and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria -- Future time reference : truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication? / Kasia M. Jaszczolt -- When the present is all in the past / Pranav Anand and Valentine Hacquard -- Reference time without tense / Carlota S. Smith.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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