The Prominence of Tense, Aspect, and Mood

The Prominence of Tense, Aspect, and Mood
Author: D. N. Shankara Bhat
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 213
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027230528

In this monograph, the author argues that natural languages exemplify the language type by assigning prominence to just one of the three verbal categories of tense, aspect and mood.

Tense, Mood and Aspect

Tense, Mood and Aspect
Author: Louis de Saussure
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9042022086

This book is a collection of articles dealing with theoretical issues in the study of tense, mood and aspect, as well as with specific semantic and syntactic problems raised by linguistic expressions dedicated to these domains across a variety of languages. Through these papers, strong variations are explored, but also crosslinguistic convergences are investigated. Numerous phenomena so far often left aside in linguistics are described and enlightened by different scientific standpoints, which they serve to illustrate. The languages investigated in this volume include Germanic languages (Dutch, English, German), Romance (French, Catalan, Italian), Slavic (Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Russian), Greek, and non-indoeuropean languages such as Thai, Digo and Kikuyu. Related topics such as grammaticalization, presuppositions, questions in dialogue, illocutionary acts and acquisition are incidentally called upon in order to shed light from the outside onto tense, mood (and modality) and aspect. This volume is of great interest for all scholars engaged in contemporary research on the linguistic expression of tense, mood and aspect. The papers gathered in this volume are a tight selection of the ones that were presented at the 6th Chronos colloquium.

The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
Author: Marcel den Dikken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1412
Release: 2013-07-25
Genre: 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.

The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect

The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect
Author: Henk J. Verkuyl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108839282

A linguistic view of how natural language speakers package and open information, to deal with the expression of time.

Tense, aspect and mood in first and second language acquisition

Tense, aspect and mood in first and second language acquisition
Author: Emmanuelle Labeau
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2012-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9401207186

Tense, aspect and mood have attracted much attention in the areas of both first and second language acquisition, but scholars in the two disciplines often fail to learn from each other. Western European languages have also been the focus of most studies, but there would be lessons to learn from less studied languages. This volume offers new insights on tense, aspect and mood by bringing together the findings of first and second language acquisition, and comparing child and adult, monolingual and multilingual learning processes that are approached from various theoretical points of view. In addition, it spans over a wide range of less studied languages (Bulgarian, Hebrew, Korean, Russian), and Western European languages are studied from new angles.

Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited

Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited
Author: Joanna Blaszczak
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2016
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 022636352X

What is a linguistic category and what kinds of categories do the labels subjunctive, imperative, future, aspect, and modality refer to? The current literature assumes a straightforward mapping between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages cultivate a sense of predictability in patterns. However, as the editors and contributors of "Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited" show, this predictability and stability vanish once lesser known patterns and languages are studied. While it is feasible to retain certain distinctions among tense, aspect, and mood (TAM) in analysis of specific issues in specific languages, ongoing formal and experimental research seems to indicate that these traditional grammatical distinctions may ultimately be illusionary. "Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited" seeks more general or fundamental grammatical structures that can encompass the breadth of related concepts traditionally placed in the TAM categories."

Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems

Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems
Author: John Victor Singler
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027278261

More than any other area of the grammar, tense-mood-aspect (TMA) has provided evidence to fuel the ongoing debates about creole genesis and about the relevance of pidgin and creole phenomena to language theory more generally. This volume advances the debate in two ways. First, it makes available in print for the first time and in its original form William Labov's On the Adequacy of Natural Languages: I. “The Development of Tense”. Second, the volume features detailed analyses of the TMA systems of seven diverse pidgins and creoles, which vary in terms of their lexifying (superstrate) languages, their location, and their social histories.With the authors employing a broad range of theoretical perspectives for their analyses, the study demonstrates both the extent to which pidgins and creoles share a single, prototypical TMA system and the degree to which individual pidgins and creoles diverge from that prototype. This is a volume that brings forward our knowledge and understanding of pidgin and creole TMA.The seven languages analyzed are: Capeverdean Crioulo, Kituba, Papiamentu, Berbice Dutch, Haitian Creole, Kru Pidgin English, and Eighteenth Century Nigerian Pidgin English.

Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality

Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality
Author: Lotte Hogeweg
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: 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.

The Semantics of Verbal Categories in Nakh-Daghestanian Languages

The Semantics of Verbal Categories in Nakh-Daghestanian Languages
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004361804

The Caucasus is the place with the greatest linguistic variation in Europe. The present volume explores this variation within the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality systems in the languages of the North-East Caucasian (or Nakh-Daghestanian) family. The papers of the volume cover the most challenging and typologically interesting features such as aspect and the complicated interaction of aspectual oppositions expressed by stem allomorphy and inflectional paradigms, grammaticalized evidentiality and mirativity, and the semantics of rare verbal categories such as the deliberative (‘May I go?’), the noncurative (‘Let him go, I don’t care’), different types of habituals (gnomic, qualitative, non-generic), and perfective tenses (aorist, perfect, resultative). The book offers an overview of these features in order to gain a broader picture of the verbal semantics covering the whole North-East Caucasian family. At the same time it provides in-depth studies of the most fascinating phenomena.

The Grammaticalization of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality

The Grammaticalization of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality
Author: Kees Hengeveld
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2017-09-11
Genre: 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.