Present Perfective Paradox Across Languages

Zusatztext This typological focus demonstrates the far-reaching consequences of the book. It isrecommended for anyone interested in temporality and crosslinguistic semantics. Informationen zum Autor Astrid De Wit holds a Ph.D in linguistics from the University of Antwerp (2014). She spent a year as a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles under a grant from the National Fund for Scientific Research. She has published widely on tense, aspect, and modality in a variety of languages, and her work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Linguistics, Studies in Language, and Journal of Germanic Linguistics. Klappentext This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'. Zusammenfassung This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'. Inhaltsverzeichnis General preface List of glosses 1: Introduction 2: An epistemic approach to the categories of tense and aspect 3: The present perfective paradox: The state of the art 4: The present perfective paradox in English 5: The present perfective paradox in French 6: The present perfective paradox in Sranan 7: The present perfective paradox in Slavic 8: Conclusion and wider relevance References Index

Product details

• Authors: Astrid De Wit, Astrid (Postdoctoral Researcher De Wit, De Wit Astrid
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2016
• EAN: 9780198759539
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875953-9
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought; Oxford Studies of Time in Lang
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics