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Author:   Jacqueline Guéron (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Université Paris 3)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   60
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.656kg
ISBN:  

9780198739418

ISBN 10:   0198739419
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   29 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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General preface List of abbreviations About the contributors 1: Jacqueline Guéron: Introduction PART I: From Sentence to Discourse 2: Brenda Laca: On the temporal orientation of intensional subjunctives in Spanish 3: Eric Corre: Russian aspect in finite and non-finite modes: From syntax to event structure 4: Liliane Tasmowski: {A/a}spect/discourse interactions 5: Maya Hickmann and Henriëtte Hendriks: Time talk in narrative discourse: Evidence from child and adult language acquisition 6: Jacqueline Guéron: On the syntax of modality: The Actuality Entailment PART II: From Discourse to Sentence 7: Nicholas Asher: Implicatures and grammar 8: Nicholas Asher and Jacqueline Guéron: Perfect puzzles in discourse 9: Patrick Caudal: The passé composé in Old French and Modern French: Evolution or revolution? 10: Svetlana Vogeleer: Polyphonic utterances: Alternation of present and past in reported speech and thoughts in Russian 11: Alessandra Giorgi: Free Indirect Discourse and the syntax of the left periphery 12: Jacqueline Guéron: Subjectivity and Free Indirect Discourse References Index

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Jacqueline Guéron is Emeritus Professor at the Université Paris 3. She holds a Ph.D in French Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorat d'Etat from the Université Paris 7. She has co-edited a number of works on subjects dealing with syntax and construal, most recently on tense, modality, and Creole syntax. She is co-author, with Liliane Haegeman, of English Grammar: A Generative Perspective (Wiley-Blackwell 1999), and, with Jacqueline Lecarme, of Time and Modality (Springer, 2008). Her publications are devoted to sentence grammar - extraposition, focus, anaphora, inalienable possession, tense, aspect, and modality - as well as to language and literature, including literary criticism, metrical theory and Free Indirect Discourse.

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