Atle Grønn
List of John Benjamins publications for which Atle Grønn plays a role.
Articles
2013 Aspect and tense in counterfactual main clauses: Fake or real? Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs, Josephson, Folke and Ingmar Söhrman (eds.), pp. 133–158 | Article
The role of aspect and tense in counterfactual main clauses is discussed on the basis of both well-established and “new” data from Russian and French. In the first part of the paper, I show that the predominant use of the imperfective in French counterfactuals is arguably “fake”, i.e. without… read more
2008 Imperfectivity and complete events Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses, Josephson, Folke and Ingmar Söhrman (eds.), pp. 149–165 | Article
Imperfectivity is cross-linguistically associated with the subinterval property and a modal component induced by the famous ‘imperfective paradox’. These properties arguably hold for both the progressive and habitual-iterative readings. However, both in Romance and Slavic, the imperfective may also… read more