Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality

Editors

Lotte Hogeweg | Radboud University Nijmegen

Helen de Hoop | Radboud University Nijmegen

Andrej L. Malchukov | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Institute of Linguistic Studies, Saint Petersburg

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In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology. However, only few studies combine semantic and typological research for a particular semantic domain (such as the papers in Bach et al. (1995) on quantification and Smith (1997) on aspect). This book brings together formal semanticists with a cross-linguistic perspective and/or those working on lesser-known languages, and typologists interested in semantic theory, to discuss semantic variation in the specific domain of Tense, Aspect, and Mood/Modality.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 148] 2009. vii, 406 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.148

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. i–viii

The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world

Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov | pp. 1–12

Incompatible categories: Resolving the “present perfective paradox”

Andrej L. Malchukov | pp. 13–32

The perfective/imperfective distinction: Coercion or aspectual operators?

Corien Bary | pp. 33–54

Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe

Peter M. Arkadiev | pp. 55–82

Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments

Sergei Tatevosov and Mikhail Ivanov | pp. 83–130

The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la ‘come’ and thwà ‘go’

Nicoletta Romeo | pp. 131–154

Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: On the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category

Rik van Gijn and Sonja Gipper | pp. 155–178

On the selection of mood in complement clauses

Rui Marques | pp. 179–204

‘Out of control’ marking as circumstantial modality in St’át’imcets

Henry Davis, Lisa Matthewson and Hotze Rullmann | pp. 205–244

Modal geometry: Remarks on the structure of a modal map

Kees de Schepper and Joost Zwarts | pp. 245–270

Acquisitive modals

Johan van der Auwera, Petar Kehayov and Alice Vittrant | pp. 271–302

Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries

Ad Foolen and Helen de Hoop | pp. 303–316

Modality and context dependence

Fabrice Nauze | pp. 317–340

Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity: Russian genitive objects

Barbara H. Partee and Vladimir Borschev | pp. 341–364

The Estonian partitive evidential: Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories

Anne Tamm | pp. 365–402

Index | pp. 403–406

“Overall, the book definitely achieves both the goal (quoted at the beginning of this review) 'to give greater prominence to the semantic richness of tense, aspect, modality, and their interactions, in the languages of the world'' and the hope that it ''contributes to the emergent field of semantic typology'.”

Terry Langendoen, University of Arizona, on Linguist List , 21.2754, 2010

“This volume is essential for anybody working on TAM marking or those interested in the question of whether semantics and typology can be useful to each other, a question that in my view can only be answered with an emphatic ‘yes’.”

Henk Zeevat, University of Amsterdam, in Language 87(1): 203-207, 2011

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