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 | Article
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
2013 A contrastive analysis of the present progressive in French and English Studies in Language 37:4, pp. 846–879 | Article
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
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 | Article
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 | Article
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