Table of contents
Preface
The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world
Incompatible categories: Resolving the “present perfective paradox”
The perfective/imperfective distinction: Coercion or aspectual operators?
Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe
Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments
The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la ‘come’ and thwà ‘go’
Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: On the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category
On the selection of mood in complement clauses
‘Out of control’ marking as circumstantial modality in St’át’imcets
Modal geometry: Remarks on the structure of a modal map
Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries
Modality and context dependence
Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity: Russian genitive objects
The Estonian partitive evidential: Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories
Index
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