Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introductory chapter; 2. How to deal with the long tradition of going ternary?; 3. Binary tense structure; 4. Naive physics and aspectual composition; 5. Levels of interaction between aspect and tense; 6. Binary tense structure and adverbial modification; 7. How to deal binarily with...?; 8. Tense, mood and aspect.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Henk J. Verkuyl is Professor Emeritus University of Utrecht Research Institute UIL OTS. This book rounds off a suite of works on tense and aspect, including On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects (1972), A Theory of Aspectuality (CUP, 1993) and Binary Tense (2008).

Zusammenfassung

Written by a well-known expert in the field, this book presents a universally applicable model of how natural language speakers deal with time in natural language, by combining semantic building blocks into larger wholes. It will be essential reading for researchers and advanced students in syntax and the syntax-semantics interface.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Henk J. Verkuyl, Verkuyl Henk J.
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781108839280
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83928-0
• Seiten: 250
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc