Cross-linguistic semantics of tense, aspect and modality (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009)
Papers from the workshop took place in Nijmega, the Netherlands in November 2006
Includes bibliographical references and index
The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world / Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop & Andrej Malchukov -- Incompatible categories: resolving the 'present perfective paradox' / Andrej Malchukov -- The perfective/imperfective distinction: coercion or aspectual operators? / Corien Bary -- Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe / Peter M. Arkadiev -- Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments / Sergei Tatevosov & Mikhail Ivanov -- The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la 'come' and Owà 'go' / Nicoletta Romeo -- Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: on the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category / Rik van Gijn & Sonja Gipper -- On the selection of mood in complement clauses / Rui Marques -- 'Out of control' marking as circumstantial modality in St'át'imcets / Henry Davis, Lisa Matthewson & Hotze Rullmann -- Modal geometry: remarks on the structure of a modal map / Kees de Schepper & Joost Zwarts -- Acquisitive modals / Johan van der Auwera, Petar Kehayov & Alice Vittrant -- Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries / Ad Foolen & Helen de Hoop -- Modality and context dependence / Fabrice Nauze -- Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity: Russian genitive objects / Barbara H. Partee & Vladimir Borschev -- The Estonian partitive evidential: Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories / Anne Tamm -- Index
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 semanti