Overview

If there’s a domain in linguistics which complexity calls for ever further research, it’s clearly that of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, often referred to as ‘TAME’. The reason for which these domains of investigation have been connected so tightly as to deserve a common label is that their actual intertwining is so dense that one can hardly measure their effects purely individually, without regard to the other notions of the spectrum. On the other hand, despite their imbrications, tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality remain – needless to say – separate theoretical entities. The papers gathered in this volume cover a range of issues and a variety of methods that help delineate, each in its way, new perspectives on this broad domain.

Full Product Details

Author:   Laura Baranzini ,  Louis de Saussure
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   31
Weight:   0.509kg
ISBN:  

9789004465855

ISBN 10:   9004465855
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   28 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Diagrams and Tables 1 Introduction  Laura Baranzini and Louis de Saussure Part 1 Meanings and Interpretations of Tenses 2 The Semantics of the Simple Future in Romance: Core Meaning and Parametric Variation  Victoria Escandell-Vidal 3 Tense Choice and Interpretation in First-Person Stories: A Contrastive Study of English and Japanese  Naoaki Wada 4 Time Updating Uses of the French Imparfait Extending Across Genres  Jakob Egetenmeyer Part 2 Aspectual Issues 5 The Futurate Reading of the Spanish Present Progressive (estar +-ndo)  Alicia Cipria 6 Non-culminating Accomplishments: Subject, Speaker and Syntactic Structure  Jacqueline Guéron and Svetlana Vogeleer 7 Preterit and Perfect in Romance: New Insights from Occitan  Myriam Bras and Jean Sibille Part 3 Modality and Evidentiality in Contrast 8 Double Modals in Scots: A Speaker’s Choice Hypothesis  Cameron Morin 9 The Contextualising Effects of the Modal Particle vel in Norwegian Interrogatives  Thorstein Fretheim 10 Belief and Performativity  Alda Mari 11 Post-modal Concessive Meanings: A Contrastive Corpus Study of French and German Modal Verbs  Corinne Rossari and Elena Smirnova 12 The Semantic Profile of the Past Evidential in Udmurt in Contemporary Texts  Rebeka Kubitsch Index

Reviews

Author Information

Laura Baranzini received her Ph.D. in Italian Linguistics from the University of Geneva in 2010. She worked as a post-doc researcher at the universities of Neuchâtel, Basel and Turin. She is currently a permanent researcher at Osservatorio linguistico della Svizzera italiana and a lecturer at Università della Svizzera italiana. Louis de Saussure, Ph.D., is professor of linguistics and discourse analysis at the University of Neuchatel where he participated to the creation of the Cognitive Science Centre. He has published extensively, in particular in the domain of TAME.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions