Author : Kit Fine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199278709
In this book, Kit Fine draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense.
Author : Jacqueline Guéron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 2008-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402083548
Here is a unique work of reference. Not only does it unite studies which explore the syntax and semantics of tense or modality, but it is the first book of its kind to embrace the interaction of tense and modality within a coherent generative model.
Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107354587
Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.
Author : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027263906
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) and also on less commonly studied languages (e.g. Hungarian, Estonian, Avar, Andi, Tagalog) provides a valuable cross-linguistic perspective.
Author : A. A. Rini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107017475
The only book to investigate the parallel between what happens at other times and what happens in other possible worlds.
Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 1994-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226086658
Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect, and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that the semantic content of these categories evolves gradually and that this process of evolution is strikingly similar across unrelated languages. Through a survey of seventy-six languages in twenty-five different phyla, the authors show that the same paths of change occur universally and that movement along these paths is in one direction only. This analysis reveals that lexical substance evolves into grammatical substance through various mechanisms of change, such as metaphorical extension and the conventionalization of implicature. Grammaticization is always accompanied by an increase in frequency of the grammatical marker, providing clear evidence that language use is a major factor in the evolution of synchronic language states. The Evolution of Grammar has important implications for the development of language and for the study of cognitive processes in general.
Author : Kees Hengeveld
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110517426
This book brings together a series of contributions to the study of grammaticalization of tense, aspect, and modality from a functional perspective. All contributions share the aim to uncover the functional motivations behind the processes of grammaticalization under discussion, but they do so from different points of view.
Author : Adeline Patard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027223831
This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is understood as indicating a degree of compatibility between the modal world and the factual world (Declerck). All contributions, moreover, tackle these problems from a more or less cognitive point of view, with some of them insisting on the need to provide a unifying explanation for all usage types, temporal and non-temporal, and all of them accepting the premise that the semantics of TA categories essentially refers to subjective, rather than objective, concerns. The volume also represents one of the first attempts to gather accounts of TA marking (in various languages) that are explicitly set within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Ultimately, this volume aims to contribute to establishing an awareness that modal meaning elements are directly relevant to the analysis of the grammar of time.
Author : Lotte Hogeweg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027288933
In recent years, we have witnessed, on the one hand, an increased interest in cross-linguistic data in formal semantic studies, and, on the other hand, an increased concern for semantic issues in language typology. However, only few studies combine semantic and typological research for a particular semantic domain (such as the papers in Bach et al. (1995) on quantification and Smith (1997) on aspect). This book brings together formal semanticists with a cross-linguistic perspective and/or those working on lesser-known languages, and typologists interested in semantic theory, to discuss semantic variation in the specific domain of Tense, Aspect, and Mood/Modality.
Author : Laura Baranzini
Publisher : Cahiers Chronos
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004465855
"If there's a domain in linguistics which complexity calls for ever further research, it's clearly that of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, often referred to as 'TAME'. The reason for which these domains of investigation have been connected so tightly as to deserve a common label is that their actual intertwining is so dense that one can hardly measure their effects purely individually, without regard to the other notions of the spectrum. On the other hand, despite their imbrications, tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality remain - needless to say - separate theoretical entities. The papers gathered in this volume cover a range of issues and a variety of methods that help delineate, each in its way, new perspectives on this broad domain"--
