This book is an up-to-date milestone for the studies of temporality and language, in particular regarding syntax and semantics. Tenses, aspect and modality are investigated both at the theoretical and at the descriptive levels, involving many different Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages. 15 authors, among which an impressive number of very well-known scholars, through a variety of theoretical approaches and tools, shed light on a wide array of phenomena that remained unexplored until now.

This book is a collection of articles dealing with theoretical issues in the study of tense, mood and aspect, as well as with specific semantic and syntactic problems raised by linguistic expressions dedicated to these domains across a variety of languages. Through these papers, strong variations are explored, but also crosslinguistic convergences are investigated. Numerous phenomena so far often left aside in linguistics are described and enlightened by different scientific standpoints, which they serve to illustrate. The languages investigated in this volume include Germanic languages...

Ce numero des Cahiers Chronos est une selection d'articles presentes lors du Colloque Chronos 6 tenu a l'Universite de Geneve en 2004 (20-22 septembre, Syntaxe, semantique et pragmatique du temps, de la modalite et de l'aspect). Le theme de ce numero a permis de regrouper des articles couvrant une grande variete d'orientations theoriques tout en partageant des preoccupations theoriques et empiriques communes. Le theme general du numero, Information temporelle, procedures et ordre discursif, regroupe des articles portant sur des questions de reference temporelle, de description des...

This book presents both general issues in pragmatic theories and specific arguments for an inferential approach to lexical and non-lexical meaning. The volume aims to defend a new post-Gricean approach to the substantial as well as functional lexicon, and more specifically, to explore lexical and non-lexical pragmatics. The book's originality stems from its demonstration that pragmatic enrichment is structurally constrained, and occurs at the level of explicature.