The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167

ISBN-13: 9781108839280 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 250 str.

Henk J. Verkuyl

Opis

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

Recenzje

'The work is excellent and focused. It is written in a coherent and formal style. It has thus successfully achieved its objectives.' Hassan Makhad, Linguist

Spis treści

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.