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337007753 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LA 148 Eb 15 9789027288936 06 10.1075/la.148 13 2009030824 DG 002 02 01 LA 02 0166-0829 Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 148 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality</TitleText> 01 la.148 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.148 1 B01 Lotte Hogeweg Hogeweg, Lotte Lotte Hogeweg Radboud University Nijmegen 2 B01 Helen de Hoop Hoop, Helen de Helen de Hoop Radboud University Nijmegen 3 B01 Andrej L. Malchukov Malchukov, Andrej L. Andrej L. Malchukov Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Institute of Linguistic Studies, Saint Petersburg 01 eng 414 vii 406 LAN009000 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.GENER Generative linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SEMAN Semantics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.TYP Typology 06 01 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. 05 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 05 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 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/la.148.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027255310.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027255310.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/la.148.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/la.148.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/la.148.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/la.148.hb.png 10 01 JB code la.148.00toc i viii 8 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Preface</TitleText> 10 01 JB code la.148.01hog 1 12 12 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Lotte Hogeweg Hogeweg, Lotte Lotte Hogeweg 2 A01 Helen de Hoop Hoop, Helen de Helen de Hoop 3 A01 Andrej L. Malchukov Malchukov, Andrej L. Andrej L. Malchukov 10 01 JB code la.148.02mal 13 32 20 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Incompatible categories</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Resolving the &#8220;present perfective paradox&#8221;</Subtitle> 1 A01 Andrej L. Malchukov Malchukov, Andrej L. Andrej L. Malchukov MPI EVA, Leipzig, Institute of Linguistic Studies, Saint Petersburg 01 In this paper I propose a general approach to the study of constraints on cooccurrence of grammatical categories and present one case study of a functionally infelicitous combination from the domain of TAM categories, the present perfective. It is argued that constraints on co-occurrence of particular categories can be accounted for in terms of local markedness and markedness hierarchies. This approach lends itself naturally for formalization in Optimality Theoretic terms. It was further shown that both production optimization (OT syntax) and comprehension optimization (OT semantics) is needed to model syntagmatic interaction of grammatical categories. 10 01 JB code la.148.03bar 33 54 22 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The perfective/imperfective distinction</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">perfective/imperfective distinction</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Coercion or aspectual operators?</Subtitle> 1 A01 Corien Bary Bary, Corien Corien Bary Radboud University Nijmegen 01 I defend an aspectual operator approach of the perfective/imperfective distinction against a coercion approach, as, for example, proposed for French by de Swart (1998). I propose an analysis that follows de Swart on many points, but keeps temporal and aspectual contributions separate. I argue that such an analysis has a larger cross-linguistic coverage than one that combines the two in a single operator. The argumentation is based on the aspectual system of Ancient Greek, but holds for any language in which temporal and aspectual information are encoded in separate morphemes, and in which the opposition perfective/ imperfective is not restricted to the past tense. In addition, I show that a coercion analysis is problematic for French as well. 10 01 JB code la.148.04ark 55 82 28 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe</TitleText> 1 A01 Peter M. Arkadiev Arkadiev, Peter M. Peter M. Arkadiev Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 01 This paper deals with different components of aspectual interpretation in Adyghe, a polysynthetic North-West Caucasian language, and hierarchical relations among them. Following Tatevosov (2002), I propose a classification of Adyghe predicates into actional classes, and then show how this classification can account for the distribution of temporal adverbials. I argue that temporal adverbials in Adyghe are able to shift the lexically specified actional characteristic of the predicate (coercion in the sense of de Swart 1998) and thus constitute a separate level of aspectually relevant operators intermediate between lexical and grammatical aspect. 10 01 JB code la.148.05tat 83 130 48 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments</TitleText> 1 A01 Sergei Tatevosov Tatevosov, Sergei Sergei Tatevosov Moscow State University 2 A01 Mikhail Ivanov Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhail Ivanov Moscow State University 01 In this paper, we examine <i>failed attempt and partial success interpretations</i> of <i>accomplishment verbs</i> cross-linguistically. We observe that accomplishments differ systematically as to which of these readings they can produce. Relying on Rothstein&#8217;s (2004) theory of accomplishments, we propose that this diversity can be accounted for through <i>properties of the relation between subevents</i> in the accomplishment event structure. 10 01 JB code la.148.06rom 131 154 24 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la &#8216;come&#8217; and thw&#224; &#8216;go&#8217;</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la &#8216;come&#8217; and thw&#224; &#8216;go&#8217;</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Nicoletta Romeo Romeo, Nicoletta Nicoletta Romeo University of New South Wales 01 This paper describes the grammatical uses of the Burmese motion verbs <i>la</i> &#8216;come&#8217; and <i>thw&#224;</i> &#8216;go&#8217;. The verbal markers -<i>la</i> &#8216;come&#8217; and thw&#224; &#8216;go&#8217; fulfil different functionsaccording to (1) the semantics of the verb they modify, (2) the way in whichevents are represented in the clause/sentence, and (3) the context of occurrencein which -<i>la</i> &#8216;come&#8217;, and <i>thw&#224;</i> &#8216;go&#8217; appear. With motion verbs, they expressdirectionality of motion of the participants in the speech act. With non-motionverbs, they function as inchoative markers, i.e. as markers of a change in theentity&#8217;s state. In addition, <i>thw&#224;</i> &#8216;go&#8217; is used in clauses/sentences to mark the decreasedsalience of the Agent and the correspondent increased salience of the Undergoer.This function of <i>thw&#224;</i> &#8216;go&#8217; will be compared with the function of -<i>lai&#61503;</i> &#8216;follow&#8217;, derived from the motion verb <i>lai&#61503;</i> &#8216;follow&#8217;, which is used to mark a high degree oftransitivity of the clause. 10 01 JB code la.148.07gij 155 178 24 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Irrealis in Yurakar&#233; and other languages</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">On the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category</Subtitle> 1 A01 Rik van Gijn Gijn, Rik van Rik van Gijn Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 2 A01 Sonja Gipper Gipper, Sonja Sonja Gipper Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 01 The linguistic category of irrealis does not show stable semantics across languages. This makes it difficult to formulate general statements about this category, and it has led some researchers to reject irrealis as a cross-linguistically valid category. In this paper we look at the semantics of the irrealis category of Yurakar&#233;, an unclassified language spoken in central Bolivia, and compare it to irrealis semantics of a number of other languages. Languages differ with respect to the subcategories they subsume under the heading of irrealis. The variable subcategories are future tense, imperatives, negatives, and habitual aspect. We argue that the cross-linguistic variation is not random, and can be stated in terms of an implicational scale. 10 01 JB code la.148.08mar 179 204 26 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">On the selection of mood in complement clauses</TitleText> 1 A01 Rui Marques Marques, Rui Rui Marques Universidade de Lisboa 01 In this paper, the selection of indicative or subjunctive for complement clauses in Romance languages is considered, the proposal being made that the selection of one or another mood is related to the kind of attitude expressed by the main predicate. Specifically, indicative is selected when the expressed attitude is one of knowledge or belief, otherwise subjunctive being selected. Hence, a relation is established between epistemic or doxastic modality and the selection of indicative, while subjunctive is not linked to any particular kind of modal value. 10 01 JB code la.148.09dav 205 244 40 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">&#8216;Out of control&#8217; marking as circumstantial modality in St&#8217;&#225;t&#8217;imcets</TitleText> 1 A01 Henry Davis Davis, Henry Henry Davis University of British Columbia 2 A01 Lisa Matthewson Matthewson, Lisa Lisa Matthewson University of British Columbia 3 A01 Hotze Rullmann Rullmann, Hotze Hotze Rullmann University of British Columbia 01 This paper provides a unified semantic analysis of the so-called &#8216;out-of-control&#8217; circumfix <i>ka-&#8230;-a</i> in St&#8217;&#225;t&#8217;imcets (Lillooet Salish). <i>ka-&#8230;-a</i> expresses an initially puzzling range of meanings, including &#8220;be able to&#8221;, &#8220;manage to&#8221;, &#8220;suddenly&#8221;, &#8220;accidentally&#8221;, and &#8220;non-controllable&#8221;. We propose that <i>ka-&#8230;-a</i> encodes circumstantial modality; we show that its various meanings all reduce to either an existential (ability) or universal (involuntary action) interpretation. Our analysis provides further support for a striking difference between St&#8217;&#225;t&#8217;imcets and English. In English, modals lexically encode quantificational strength, but do not encode distinctions between epistemic, deontic and circumstantial interpretations. St&#8217;&#225;t&#8217;imcets modals display exactly the inverse pattern (Rullmann et al. 2008). In line with this, <i>ka-&#8230;-a</i> lexically encodes circumstantial modality, but does not encode quantificational strength. The parallel between <i>ka-&#8230;-a</i> and other St&#8217;&#225;t&#8217;imcets modal elements provides support for our analysis, in contrast to previous accounts (e.g., Demirdache 1997), which treat <i>ka-&#8230;-a</i> as primarily aspectual in nature. 10 01 JB code la.148.10sch 245 270 26 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Modal geometry</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Remarks on the structure of a modal map</Subtitle> 1 A01 Kees de Schepper Schepper, Kees de Kees de Schepper Radboud University Nijmegen 2 A01 Joost Zwarts Zwarts, Joost Joost Zwarts Utrecht University 01 This paper takes a closer look at the &#8216;geometric&#8217; structure of the semantic map of modality (Van der Auwera &amp; Plungian 1998). By analyzing the different modalities into more basic modal features, we can get a better view on how the map is organized along different dimensions around a neutral middle modality, how the deontic modality fits on the map and what role connectivity plays in defining polyfunctionality. Drawing on data from Dutch, we argue that a basic distinction on the map corresponds to the grammatical raising/control distinction. 10 01 JB code la.148.11auw 271 302 32 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Acquisitive modals</TitleText> 1 A01 Johan van der Auwera Auwera, Johan van der Johan van der Auwera University of Antwerp/ 2 A01 Petar Kehayov Kehayov, Petar Petar Kehayov University of Tartu 3 A01 Alice Vittrant Vittrant, Alice Alice Vittrant University of Aix-en-Provence 01 The paper explores the fact that &#8216;get&#8217; etymons may acquire modal meanings. It tries to fit this fact into the modal map proposal of van der Auwera &amp; Plungian (1998) and concludes that the map has to be revised, in part because the lexical input, the predicates meaning &#8216;get/acquire&#8217; allow more than one reading, an agentive and a receptive one. The paper focuses on the two areas in which so-called &#8216;acquisitiv modality&#8217; is very prominent, viz. Northern Europe and South(east) Asia. 10 01 JB code la.148.12foo 303 316 14 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries</TitleText> 1 A01 Ad Foolen Foolen, Ad Ad Foolen Radboud University Nijmegen 2 A01 Helen de Hoop Hoop, Helen de Helen de Hoop Radboud University Nijmegen 01 The Dutch modal auxiliaries <i>kunnen</i> &#8216;can&#8217; and <i>moeten</i> &#8216;must&#8217; can be interpreted in different ways: &#8216;participant-internal, &#8216;participant-external&#8217;, and epistemic. For each of the verbs, we assume a basic, default interpretation: &#8216;participant-internal&#8217; for <i>kunnen</i>, &#8216;participant-external&#8217; for <i>moeten</i>. In sentences with a &#8216;neutral&#8217; main verb like <i>zwemmen</i> &#8216;to swim&#8217;, and with a third person subject, the hearer chooses this basic interpretation. We subsequently show that other elements in the sentence can induce a non-basic interpretation. In particular the controllability of the activity expressed in the main verb (&#8216;to swim&#8217; versus &#8216;to pee&#8217;), progressive aspect, and person of the subject (in particular second person subject) are relevant factors influencing the interpretation of the modal verb. We model the factors influencing the interpretation as violable constraints in an optimal theoretic analysis, which leads to tableaux with a sentence as input and an optimal interpretation of that sentence as output. 10 01 JB code la.148.13nau 317 340 24 Article 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Modality and context dependence</TitleText> 1 A01 Fabrice Nauze Nauze, Fabrice Fabrice Nauze ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam 01 This paper argues that the analysis of modality in terms of generalized quantification falls short on three issues. First it is shown that such an analysis encounters serious problems when it come to deontic modality. Second I will show that the standard analysis makes false predictions by allowing unwanted combinations of modal items. Third I will argue that the data from Lillooet challenges the position that modality should be analyzed across the board as the interaction of a neutral operator with an externally provided intensional context. Finally I will sketch a solution to those problems within the framework of update semantics. I will propose a polysemous treatment of modality where each modality type (epistemic, deontic and circumstantial) has a distinct meaning. 10 01 JB code la.148.14par 341 364 24 Article 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Russian genitive objects</Subtitle> 1 A01 Barbara H. Partee Partee, Barbara H. Barbara H. Partee University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2 A01 Vladimir Borschev Borschev, Vladimir Vladimir Borschev VINITI, Russian Academy of Sciences and UMass, Amherst 01 The Russian Genitive of Negation construction involves alternations of genitive with nominative or accusative case under negation; typically a genitive NP is interpreted as &#8220;weaker&#8221; than a corresponding nominative or accusative, having narrow scope with respect to negation and as lacking any existence presupposition. A similar alternation is found with some intensional verbs, with genitive (sometimes) used for the &#8220;opaque&#8221; reading of the direct object. The similarity among these uses of genitive for &#8216;less referential&#8217; objects was observed by Neidle (1982). One challenge for compositionality is the apparent nonuniformity of the semantics: the case alternations often have semantic correlates, but not always; when they do, the semantic correlates are not self-evidently the same in each case. We believe that a solution might be approached by combining the Russian &#8220;verb-centered&#8221; view of the phenomena with the western &#8220;compositionality-centered&#8221; view. As a prolegomenon to a fuller study of shifts in semantics and in fine-grained argument structure of verbs under negation and under the influence of intensionality, modality, and imperfective aspect, in this paper we examine the relationships between negation and intensionality and between partitivity and imperfectivity. 10 01 JB code la.148.15tam 365 402 38 Article 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The Estonian partitive evidential</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">Estonian partitive evidential</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories</Subtitle> 1 A01 Anne Tamm Tamm, Anne Anne Tamm Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of Florence 01 This article shows that the Estonian partitive evidential marks predicates in sentences that express incomplete evidence. Partitive occurs in the categories of aspect, epistemic modality, and evidentiality, marking objects and present participles. Despite the difference in syntax, the semantics of these categories is based on parallel relationships. More specifically, the aspectual partitive marks objects in sentences describing incomplete events, and the partitive evidential appears in sentences that encode incomplete evidence compared to the expectation of complete evidence. 10 01 JB code la.148.17ind 403 406 4 Miscellaneous 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20091130 2009 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027255310 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 105.00 EUR R 01 00 88.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 158.00 USD S 162007752 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LA 148 Hb 15 9789027255310 13 2009030824 BB 01 LA 02 0166-0829 Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 148 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality</TitleText> 01 la.148 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.148 1 B01 Lotte Hogeweg Hogeweg, Lotte Lotte Hogeweg Radboud University Nijmegen 2 B01 Helen de Hoop Hoop, Helen de Helen de Hoop Radboud University Nijmegen 3 B01 Andrej L. Malchukov Malchukov, Andrej L. Andrej L. Malchukov Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Institute of Linguistic Studies, Saint Petersburg 01 eng 414 vii 406 LAN009000 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.GENER Generative linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SEMAN Semantics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.TYP Typology 06 01 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. 05 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 05 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 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/la.148.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027255310.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027255310.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/la.148.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/la.148.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/la.148.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/la.148.hb.png 10 01 JB code la.148.00toc i viii 8 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Preface</TitleText> 10 01 JB code la.148.01hog 1 12 12 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Lotte Hogeweg Hogeweg, Lotte Lotte Hogeweg 2 A01 Helen de Hoop Hoop, Helen de Helen de Hoop 3 A01 Andrej L. Malchukov Malchukov, Andrej L. Andrej L. Malchukov 10 01 JB code la.148.02mal 13 32 20 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Incompatible categories</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Resolving the &#8220;present perfective paradox&#8221;</Subtitle> 1 A01 Andrej L. Malchukov Malchukov, Andrej L. Andrej L. Malchukov MPI EVA, Leipzig, Institute of Linguistic Studies, Saint Petersburg 01 In this paper I propose a general approach to the study of constraints on cooccurrence of grammatical categories and present one case study of a functionally infelicitous combination from the domain of TAM categories, the present perfective. It is argued that constraints on co-occurrence of particular categories can be accounted for in terms of local markedness and markedness hierarchies. This approach lends itself naturally for formalization in Optimality Theoretic terms. It was further shown that both production optimization (OT syntax) and comprehension optimization (OT semantics) is needed to model syntagmatic interaction of grammatical categories. 10 01 JB code la.148.03bar 33 54 22 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The perfective/imperfective distinction</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">perfective/imperfective distinction</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Coercion or aspectual operators?</Subtitle> 1 A01 Corien Bary Bary, Corien Corien Bary Radboud University Nijmegen 01 I defend an aspectual operator approach of the perfective/imperfective distinction against a coercion approach, as, for example, proposed for French by de Swart (1998). I propose an analysis that follows de Swart on many points, but keeps temporal and aspectual contributions separate. I argue that such an analysis has a larger cross-linguistic coverage than one that combines the two in a single operator. The argumentation is based on the aspectual system of Ancient Greek, but holds for any language in which temporal and aspectual information are encoded in separate morphemes, and in which the opposition perfective/ imperfective is not restricted to the past tense. In addition, I show that a coercion analysis is problematic for French as well. 10 01 JB code la.148.04ark 55 82 28 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe</TitleText> 1 A01 Peter M. Arkadiev Arkadiev, Peter M. Peter M. Arkadiev Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 01 This paper deals with different components of aspectual interpretation in Adyghe, a polysynthetic North-West Caucasian language, and hierarchical relations among them. Following Tatevosov (2002), I propose a classification of Adyghe predicates into actional classes, and then show how this classification can account for the distribution of temporal adverbials. I argue that temporal adverbials in Adyghe are able to shift the lexically specified actional characteristic of the predicate (coercion in the sense of de Swart 1998) and thus constitute a separate level of aspectually relevant operators intermediate between lexical and grammatical aspect. 10 01 JB code la.148.05tat 83 130 48 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments</TitleText> 1 A01 Sergei Tatevosov Tatevosov, Sergei Sergei Tatevosov Moscow State University 2 A01 Mikhail Ivanov Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhail Ivanov Moscow State University 01 In this paper, we examine <i>failed attempt and partial success interpretations</i> of <i>accomplishment verbs</i> cross-linguistically. We observe that accomplishments differ systematically as to which of these readings they can produce. Relying on Rothstein&#8217;s (2004) theory of accomplishments, we propose that this diversity can be accounted for through <i>properties of the relation between subevents</i> in the accomplishment event structure. 10 01 JB code la.148.06rom 131 154 24 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la &#8216;come&#8217; and thw&#224; &#8216;go&#8217;</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la &#8216;come&#8217; and thw&#224; &#8216;go&#8217;</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Nicoletta Romeo Romeo, Nicoletta Nicoletta Romeo University of New South Wales 01 This paper describes the grammatical uses of the Burmese motion verbs <i>la</i> &#8216;come&#8217; and <i>thw&#224;</i> &#8216;go&#8217;. The verbal markers -<i>la</i> &#8216;come&#8217; and thw&#224; &#8216;go&#8217; fulfil different functionsaccording to (1) the semantics of the verb they modify, (2) the way in whichevents are represented in the clause/sentence, and (3) the context of occurrencein which -<i>la</i> &#8216;come&#8217;, and <i>thw&#224;</i> &#8216;go&#8217; appear. With motion verbs, they expressdirectionality of motion of the participants in the speech act. With non-motionverbs, they function as inchoative markers, i.e. as markers of a change in theentity&#8217;s state. In addition, <i>thw&#224;</i> &#8216;go&#8217; is used in clauses/sentences to mark the decreasedsalience of the Agent and the correspondent increased salience of the Undergoer.This function of <i>thw&#224;</i> &#8216;go&#8217; will be compared with the function of -<i>lai&#61503;</i> &#8216;follow&#8217;, derived from the motion verb <i>lai&#61503;</i> &#8216;follow&#8217;, which is used to mark a high degree oftransitivity of the clause. 10 01 JB code la.148.07gij 155 178 24 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Irrealis in Yurakar&#233; and other languages</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">On the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category</Subtitle> 1 A01 Rik van Gijn Gijn, Rik van Rik van Gijn Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 2 A01 Sonja Gipper Gipper, Sonja Sonja Gipper Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 01 The linguistic category of irrealis does not show stable semantics across languages. This makes it difficult to formulate general statements about this category, and it has led some researchers to reject irrealis as a cross-linguistically valid category. In this paper we look at the semantics of the irrealis category of Yurakar&#233;, an unclassified language spoken in central Bolivia, and compare it to irrealis semantics of a number of other languages. Languages differ with respect to the subcategories they subsume under the heading of irrealis. The variable subcategories are future tense, imperatives, negatives, and habitual aspect. We argue that the cross-linguistic variation is not random, and can be stated in terms of an implicational scale. 10 01 JB code la.148.08mar 179 204 26 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">On the selection of mood in complement clauses</TitleText> 1 A01 Rui Marques Marques, Rui Rui Marques Universidade de Lisboa 01 In this paper, the selection of indicative or subjunctive for complement clauses in Romance languages is considered, the proposal being made that the selection of one or another mood is related to the kind of attitude expressed by the main predicate. Specifically, indicative is selected when the expressed attitude is one of knowledge or belief, otherwise subjunctive being selected. Hence, a relation is established between epistemic or doxastic modality and the selection of indicative, while subjunctive is not linked to any particular kind of modal value. 10 01 JB code la.148.09dav 205 244 40 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">&#8216;Out of control&#8217; marking as circumstantial modality in St&#8217;&#225;t&#8217;imcets</TitleText> 1 A01 Henry Davis Davis, Henry Henry Davis University of British Columbia 2 A01 Lisa Matthewson Matthewson, Lisa Lisa Matthewson University of British Columbia 3 A01 Hotze Rullmann Rullmann, Hotze Hotze Rullmann University of British Columbia 01 This paper provides a unified semantic analysis of the so-called &#8216;out-of-control&#8217; circumfix <i>ka-&#8230;-a</i> in St&#8217;&#225;t&#8217;imcets (Lillooet Salish). <i>ka-&#8230;-a</i> expresses an initially puzzling range of meanings, including &#8220;be able to&#8221;, &#8220;manage to&#8221;, &#8220;suddenly&#8221;, &#8220;accidentally&#8221;, and &#8220;non-controllable&#8221;. We propose that <i>ka-&#8230;-a</i> encodes circumstantial modality; we show that its various meanings all reduce to either an existential (ability) or universal (involuntary action) interpretation. Our analysis provides further support for a striking difference between St&#8217;&#225;t&#8217;imcets and English. In English, modals lexically encode quantificational strength, but do not encode distinctions between epistemic, deontic and circumstantial interpretations. St&#8217;&#225;t&#8217;imcets modals display exactly the inverse pattern (Rullmann et al. 2008). In line with this, <i>ka-&#8230;-a</i> lexically encodes circumstantial modality, but does not encode quantificational strength. The parallel between <i>ka-&#8230;-a</i> and other St&#8217;&#225;t&#8217;imcets modal elements provides support for our analysis, in contrast to previous accounts (e.g., Demirdache 1997), which treat <i>ka-&#8230;-a</i> as primarily aspectual in nature. 10 01 JB code la.148.10sch 245 270 26 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Modal geometry</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Remarks on the structure of a modal map</Subtitle> 1 A01 Kees de Schepper Schepper, Kees de Kees de Schepper Radboud University Nijmegen 2 A01 Joost Zwarts Zwarts, Joost Joost Zwarts Utrecht University 01 This paper takes a closer look at the &#8216;geometric&#8217; structure of the semantic map of modality (Van der Auwera &amp; Plungian 1998). By analyzing the different modalities into more basic modal features, we can get a better view on how the map is organized along different dimensions around a neutral middle modality, how the deontic modality fits on the map and what role connectivity plays in defining polyfunctionality. Drawing on data from Dutch, we argue that a basic distinction on the map corresponds to the grammatical raising/control distinction. 10 01 JB code la.148.11auw 271 302 32 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Acquisitive modals</TitleText> 1 A01 Johan van der Auwera Auwera, Johan van der Johan van der Auwera University of Antwerp/ 2 A01 Petar Kehayov Kehayov, Petar Petar Kehayov University of Tartu 3 A01 Alice Vittrant Vittrant, Alice Alice Vittrant University of Aix-en-Provence 01 The paper explores the fact that &#8216;get&#8217; etymons may acquire modal meanings. It tries to fit this fact into the modal map proposal of van der Auwera &amp; Plungian (1998) and concludes that the map has to be revised, in part because the lexical input, the predicates meaning &#8216;get/acquire&#8217; allow more than one reading, an agentive and a receptive one. The paper focuses on the two areas in which so-called &#8216;acquisitiv modality&#8217; is very prominent, viz. Northern Europe and South(east) Asia. 10 01 JB code la.148.12foo 303 316 14 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries</TitleText> 1 A01 Ad Foolen Foolen, Ad Ad Foolen Radboud University Nijmegen 2 A01 Helen de Hoop Hoop, Helen de Helen de Hoop Radboud University Nijmegen 01 The Dutch modal auxiliaries <i>kunnen</i> &#8216;can&#8217; and <i>moeten</i> &#8216;must&#8217; can be interpreted in different ways: &#8216;participant-internal, &#8216;participant-external&#8217;, and epistemic. For each of the verbs, we assume a basic, default interpretation: &#8216;participant-internal&#8217; for <i>kunnen</i>, &#8216;participant-external&#8217; for <i>moeten</i>. In sentences with a &#8216;neutral&#8217; main verb like <i>zwemmen</i> &#8216;to swim&#8217;, and with a third person subject, the hearer chooses this basic interpretation. We subsequently show that other elements in the sentence can induce a non-basic interpretation. In particular the controllability of the activity expressed in the main verb (&#8216;to swim&#8217; versus &#8216;to pee&#8217;), progressive aspect, and person of the subject (in particular second person subject) are relevant factors influencing the interpretation of the modal verb. We model the factors influencing the interpretation as violable constraints in an optimal theoretic analysis, which leads to tableaux with a sentence as input and an optimal interpretation of that sentence as output. 10 01 JB code la.148.13nau 317 340 24 Article 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Modality and context dependence</TitleText> 1 A01 Fabrice Nauze Nauze, Fabrice Fabrice Nauze ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam 01 This paper argues that the analysis of modality in terms of generalized quantification falls short on three issues. First it is shown that such an analysis encounters serious problems when it come to deontic modality. Second I will show that the standard analysis makes false predictions by allowing unwanted combinations of modal items. Third I will argue that the data from Lillooet challenges the position that modality should be analyzed across the board as the interaction of a neutral operator with an externally provided intensional context. Finally I will sketch a solution to those problems within the framework of update semantics. I will propose a polysemous treatment of modality where each modality type (epistemic, deontic and circumstantial) has a distinct meaning. 10 01 JB code la.148.14par 341 364 24 Article 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Russian genitive objects</Subtitle> 1 A01 Barbara H. Partee Partee, Barbara H. Barbara H. Partee University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2 A01 Vladimir Borschev Borschev, Vladimir Vladimir Borschev VINITI, Russian Academy of Sciences and UMass, Amherst 01 The Russian Genitive of Negation construction involves alternations of genitive with nominative or accusative case under negation; typically a genitive NP is interpreted as &#8220;weaker&#8221; than a corresponding nominative or accusative, having narrow scope with respect to negation and as lacking any existence presupposition. A similar alternation is found with some intensional verbs, with genitive (sometimes) used for the &#8220;opaque&#8221; reading of the direct object. The similarity among these uses of genitive for &#8216;less referential&#8217; objects was observed by Neidle (1982). One challenge for compositionality is the apparent nonuniformity of the semantics: the case alternations often have semantic correlates, but not always; when they do, the semantic correlates are not self-evidently the same in each case. We believe that a solution might be approached by combining the Russian &#8220;verb-centered&#8221; view of the phenomena with the western &#8220;compositionality-centered&#8221; view. As a prolegomenon to a fuller study of shifts in semantics and in fine-grained argument structure of verbs under negation and under the influence of intensionality, modality, and imperfective aspect, in this paper we examine the relationships between negation and intensionality and between partitivity and imperfectivity. 10 01 JB code la.148.15tam 365 402 38 Article 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The Estonian partitive evidential</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">Estonian partitive evidential</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories</Subtitle> 1 A01 Anne Tamm Tamm, Anne Anne Tamm Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of Florence 01 This article shows that the Estonian partitive evidential marks predicates in sentences that express incomplete evidence. Partitive occurs in the categories of aspect, epistemic modality, and evidentiality, marking objects and present participles. Despite the difference in syntax, the semantics of these categories is based on parallel relationships. More specifically, the aspectual partitive marks objects in sentences describing incomplete events, and the partitive evidential appears in sentences that encode incomplete evidence compared to the expectation of complete evidence. 10 01 JB code la.148.17ind 403 406 4 Miscellaneous 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20091130 2009 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 01 245 mm 02 164 mm 08 890 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 8 12 01 02 JB 1 00 105.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 111.30 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 12 02 02 JB 1 00 88.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 12 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 158.00 USD