Table of contents
I. Tense and Aspect in Discourse
Aspect between Discourse and Grammar: An Introductory Essay for the Volume3
The Discourse Motivation for the Perfect Aspect: The Mandarin Particle LE19
The Function of Inuktitut Verb Modes in Narratives Texts45
Aspect in Conversational Indonesian65
II. The Creation of Tense and Aspect
Universals of Aspect and Parts of Speech: Parallels between Signed and spoken Languages91
Tense-Aspect Modality: The Creole Proto-Type and Beyond115
III. Tense and Aspect as Cognitive Categories
Aspect, Transitivity, and Viewpoint167
Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Use of the Turkish Evidential185
Figure and Ground: The Interrelationships of Linguistic Categories201
IV. Tense and Aspect as Semantic and Grammatical Categories
The ‘Perfect’ as a Universal and as a Language-Particular Category227
Remarks on English Aspect265
Invariance and the Syntax of Russian Aspect305
V. Afterword
On Cross-Linguistic Categories and Related Problems: A Discussant’s Notes on the Tense/Aspect Symposium335
Index to References347
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