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Title Recent advances in the syntax and semantics of tense, aspect and modality [electronic resource] / edited by Louis de Saussure, Jacques Moeschler, Genoveva Puskas.

Imprint Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007.

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Description 253 p. : ill.
Series Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 185
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 185.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Modals, emotives, and modal subordination / Nicholas Asher and Eric McCready -- The past and perfect of epistemic modals / Ronny Boogaart -- Aspectual composition in idioms / Sheila Glasbey -- A modified ExtendedNow for the present perfect / Bjorn Rothstein -- The passe simple/imparfait of French vs. the simple past/past progressive of English / Arie Molendijk -- Sequence of perfect / Tim Stowell -- Temporal and aspectual variation in ARIs / Ricardo Etxepare and Kleanthes K. Grohmann -- Economy constraints on temporal subordination / Hamida Demirdache and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria -- Future time reference : truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication? / Kasia M. Jaszczolt -- When the present is all in the past / Pranav Anand and Valentine Hacquard -- Reference time without tense / Carlota S. Smith.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Temporal constructions.
Modality (Linguistics)
Semantics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Saussure, Louis de.
Moeschler, Jacques.
Puskas, Genoveva.
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ISBN 9783110195255 (hardcover : alk. paper)
3110195259 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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