Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality
Edited by Adeline Patard and Frank Brisard
[Human Cognitive Processing, 29] 2011. ix, 319 pp.
Adeline Patard
List of John Benjamins publications for which Adeline Patard plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2013 Modality, aspect and the progressive: The semantics of the present progressive in French in comparison with English Languages in Contrast 13:1, pp. 113–132
This paper proffers a corpus-based study of the semantics of the French present progressive in comparison with its English equivalent. We describe the temporal and modal uses of ‘be + -ing’ and investigate to what extent they overlap with the uses of être + en train de. The observation that the use… read more | Article
2013 A contrastive analysis of the present progressive in French and English Studies in Language 37:4, pp. 846–879
In this study, we address the semantics of the present progressive constructions in French and English by looking into their present-day uses and their diachronic evolution. Corpus data show that both constructions are frequently used in contemporary English and French to stress the atypical nature… read more | Article
2011 Introduction: Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect, and epistemic modality Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality, Patard, Adeline and Frank Brisard (eds.), pp. 1–18
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2011 The epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imparfait: When temporality conveys modality Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality, Patard, Adeline and Frank Brisard (eds.), pp. 279–310
This chapter explores the connection between past tense and modality in English and French. After arguing for a temporal definition of past tenses, I reinterpret the classical opposition between temporal uses and modal uses in terms of the speakers’s referential or subjective intentionality. I… read more | Article