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Author:   Louis de Saussure ,  Jacques Moeschler ,  Genoveva Puskas
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   17
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9789042022089

ISBN 10:   9042022086
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 January 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Louis de SAUSSURE: Introduction Co VET: The descriptive inadequacy of Reichenbach's tense system: A new proposal Hans SMESSAERT: The evaluation of aspectual distance, speed and progress Steve NICOLLE: The grammaticalization of tense markers: A pragmatic reanalysis Maria ASNES: Aspectual interactions between predicates and their external arguments in French Anne Le DRAOULEC and Myriam BRAS: Alors as a possible temporal connective in discourse Tijana ASIC: The power of prepositions: Is he sleeping now or usually? Hortensia CURELL and Merce COLL: On the dual nature of the Catalan present perfect Andrea ROCCI: Epistemic modality and questions in dialogue. The case of Italian interrogative constructions in the subjunctive mood Andre MEINUNGER: In the mood of desire and hope: remarks on the German subjunctive, the verb second phenomenon, the nature of volitional predicates and speculations on illocution Linde ROELS, Tanja MORTELMANS and Johan van der AUWERA: Dutch equivalents of the German past conjunctive: zou +infinitive and the modal preterit Boban ARSENIJEVIC: Slavic verb prefixes are resultative Sophia DELIDAKI: The acquisition of aspect in child Greek: A production experiment Jiranthara SRIOUTAI: The Thai cla: a marker of tense or modality?

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this volume represents an extremely useful collection of articles that deserve the attention of all those who are interested in achieving an understanding of the threefold domain of tense, mood and aspect. in: French Language Studies, Vol. 18 - 2008 This volume presents a showcase of recent research into semantics in Indo-European. The very fine-grained approach to tense and aspect will provide food for thought for any researcher interested in how structure and semantics interplay, not just in French or in Romance, but across all languages. in: New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Vol. 29, Nr. 1, 2008 an inspiring collection of articles that will promote new ideas and advances in the Tense, Aspect and Modality domain of research. in: The Linguist List

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