The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 7th Chronos colloquium in Antwerp (2006). They specifically focus on issues dealing with the categories of Aktionsart, aspect and tense, and the possible relations between these categories, mainly in Germanic and Romance languages. Some of the papers in this collection put the relation between tense and modal meaning into focus, which was in fact the Antwerp conference's special topic. More in particular, the papers in this volume deal with: non-state imperfectives in Romance and West-Germanic; aspectual properties of French...

This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 7th Chronos colloquium in Antwerp (2006), which deal with the expression of modality (in a wide sense), by modal and semi-modal verbs (in Germanic and Romance languages), on the one hand, and by other markers (in languages like Turkish, Tibetan and Japanese), on the other. The Antwerp edition's special conference topic was the interaction between tense and modality, of which some of the papers collected in this volume also testify. The volume covers a wide range of languages and topics. Specific topics include: the distinction between root...

Ce recueil, en hommage a Nelly Flaux, comprend vingt-quatre articles, rediges par des chercheurs ou des enseignants-chercheurs qui tous ont croise son chemin, parce qu ils ont travaille sur les memes objets, mais aussi parce qu ils ont, outre ces cheminements scientifiques communs ou paralleles, noue des liens plus etroits d amitie avec elle.
Trois grands axes thematiques, qui correspondent aux interets scientifiques de Nelly Flaux, se degagent du volume: le nom et le groupe nominal; la syntaxe et la pragmatique; le temps, l aspect et la maniere. Apparait aussi en filigrane un volet...