Modality–Aspect Interfaces

Implications and typological solutions

Editors

Werner Abraham | University of Vienna

Elisabeth Leiss | University of Munich

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The main topics pursued in this volume are based on empirical insights derived from Germanic: logical and typological dispositions about aspect-modality links. These are probed in a variety of non-related languages. The logically establishable links are the following: Modal verbs are aspect sensitive in the selection of their infinitival complements – embedded infinitival perfectivity implies root modal reading, whereas embedded infinitival imperfectivity triggers epistemic readings. However, in marked contexts such as negated ones, the aspectual affinities of modal verbs are neutralized or even subject to markedness inversion. All of this suggests that languages that do not, or only partially, bestow upon full modal verb paradigms seek to express modal variations in terms of their aspect oppositions. This typological tenet is investigated in a variety of languages from Indo-European (German, Slavic, Armenian), African, Asian, Amerindian, and Creoles. Seeming deviations and idiosyncrasies in the interaction between aspect and modality turn out to be highly rule-based.

[Typological Studies in Language, 79] 2008. xxiv, 422 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.79

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. vii–viii

Preface | p. ix

Introduction: Aspect-modality interfaces and interchanges across languages

Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss | pp. xi–xxiv

General

On the logic of generalizations about cross-linguistic aspect-modality links

Werner Abraham | pp. 3–13

The silent and aspect-driven patterns of deonticity and epistemicity: A chapter in diachronic typology

Elisabeth Leiss | pp. 15–41

Propositional aspect and the development of modal inferences in English

Debra Ziegeler | pp. 43–79

Towards an understanding of the progressive form in English: The Imperative as a heuristic tool

Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Marion Bond, Lori Heintzelman, Dan Keller, Saeko Ogihara and Erin Shay | pp. 81–96

Epistemic modality and aspect contingency in Armenian, Russian, and German

Stella Gevorgyan-Ninness | pp. 97–115

Slavic

Indefiniteness and imperfectivity as micro-grammatical contexts of epistemicity in German-Slovene translations

Carmen Terzan Kopecky | pp. 119–145

The connections between modality, aspectuality, and temporality in Modern Russian

Wladimir D. Klimonov and Gerda Klimonov | pp. 147–173

Aspectual coercion in Bulgarian negative imperatives

Milena Kuehnast | pp. 175–196

Russian modals možet 'can' and dolžen 'must' selecting the imperfective in negative contexts

Elena Padučeva | pp. 197–211

African

Tense, mood, and aspect in Gungbe (Kwa)

Enoch Oladé Aboh and Fabrice Nauze | pp. 215–239

The modal system of the Igbo language

Chinedu Uchechekwu | pp. 241–276

Asian

The aspect-modality link in the Japanese verbal complex and beyond

Heiko Narrog | pp. 279–307

The aspect-modality link in Japanese: The case of the evaluating sentence

Shin Tanaka | pp. 309–327

Amerindian

The Lakota aspect/modality markers -kinica and tkhá

Regina Pustet | pp. 331–355

Creole

A note on modality and aspect in Saramaccan

Heiko Narrog | pp. 359–368

Diachronic

Aspects of a reconstruction of form and function of modal verbs in Germanic and other languages

Michail L. Kotin | pp. 371–384

The autopsy of a modal – insights from the historical development of German

Jakob Maché | pp. 385–415

Index of authors | pp. 417–418

Index of subjects | pp. 419–422

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