Recent Advances in the Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality / / ed. by Jacques Moeschler, Genoveva Puskás, Louis de Saussure.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Anand, Pranav,; Asher, Nicholas,; Boogaart, Ronny,; Demirdache, Hamida,; Etxepare, Ricardo,; Glasbey, Sheila,; Grohmann, Kleanthes K.,; Hacquard, Valentine,; Jaszczolt, Kasia M.,; McCready, Eric,; Moeschler, Jacques,; Molendijk, Arie,; Puskás, Genoveva,; Rothstein, Björn,; Saussure, Louis,; Smith, Carlota S.,; Stowell, Tim,; Uribe-Etxebarria, Myriam,
• HerausgeberIn: Moeschler, Jacques,; Puskás, Genoveva,; Saussure, Louis de,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 185
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (253 p.)

It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics. A large number of syntactic and semantic phenomena are concerned by the temporal-aspectual-modal lev...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• Modals, emotives, and modal subordination
• The past and perfect of epistemic modals
• Aspectual composition in idioms
• A modified ExtendedNow for the present
• perfect
• The passé simple / imparfait of French vs the
• simple past / past progressive of English
• Sequence of perfect
• Temporal and aspectual variation in ARIs
• Economy constraints on temporal
• subordination
• Future time reference: Truth-conditional pragmatics
• or semantics of acts of communication?
• When the Present is all in the Past
• Reference time without tense
• Backmatter