Tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality: cross-linguistic perspectives

• Type: Book
• Date: 2018

Authors

Ayoun, Dalila (Editor) Other; Celle, Agnès (Editor) Other; Lansari, Laure (Editor) Other

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing

Amsterdam

Other information

DOI: 10.1075/slcs.197

Abstract (EN): After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a variety of original contributions that are firmly empirically-grounded based on elicited or corpus data, while adopting different theoretical frameworks. Thus, some chapters rely on large diachronic corpora and provide new qualitative insight on the evolution of TAM systems through quantitative methods, while others carry out a collostructional analysis of past-tensed verbs using inferential statistics to explore the lexical grammar of verbs. A common goal is to uncover semantic regularities and variation in the TAM systems of the languages under study by taking a close look at context. Such a fine-grained approach contributes to our understanding of the TAM systems from a typological perspective. The focus on well-known Indo-European languages (e.g. French, German, English, Spanish), but also on less commonly studied languages (e.g. Hungarian, Estonian, Avar, Andi, Tagalog) provides a valuable cross-linguistic perspective.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 374

ISBN: 9789027200969

Electronic ISBN: 9789027263902

Collection: Studies in Language Companion Series; 197