Recent advances in the syntax and semantics of tense, aspect and modality /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Saussure, Louis de, Moeschler, Jacques, Puskás, Genoveva
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2007]
Series:	Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs. 185.
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Temporal constructions. Modality (Linguistics) Semantics.

Table of Contents:

Modals, emotives, and modal subordination / Nicholas Asher and Eric McCready
The past and perfect of epistemic modals / Ronny Boogaart
Aspectual composition in idioms / Sheila Glasbey
A modified ExtendedNow for the present perfect / Björn Rothstein
The passé simple/imparfait of French vs. the simple past/past progressive of English / Arie Molendijk
Sequence of perfect / Tim Stowell
Temporal and aspectual variation in ARIs / Ricardo Etxepare and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Economy constraints on temporal subordination / Hamida Demirdache and Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria
Future time reference : truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication? / Kasia M. Jaszczolt
When the present is all in the past / Pranav Anand and Valentine Hacquard
Reference time without tense / Carlota S. Smith.