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Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic ModalityEdited by Adeline Patard and Frank Brisard
[Human Cognitive Processing 29] 2011
► pp. 217–248
Imperfective aspect and epistemic modality
Ronny Boogaart | University of Leiden
Radoslava Trnavac | Simon Fraser University
As is well known, the epistemic reading of modal verbs typically arises with imperfective complements. It is argued that this is related to a more general connection between imperfective aspect and subjectivity: imperfective forms express simultaneity of a situation with an independently provided point of reference. This may be a point of perspective, an epistemic evaluation time, or the point of speech itself. Data from Russian, however, suggest that this particular link between imperfective aspect and epistemic modality is restricted to imperfective aspect of the Germanic, and Romance, kind.
Published online: 28 July 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.29.14boo
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.29.14boo
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