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...

Cet ouvrage est une introduction a la theorie syntaxique basee sur le programme minimaliste, une version recente de la grammaire generative. Il se veut accessible tant aux linguistes debutants qu a ceux, deja familiarises avec la grammaire generative, qui souhaitent mettre leurs connaissances a jour. Les chapitres explorent de maniere progressive divers aspects de l analyse de la phrase comme la structure des constituants, de la phrase declarative simple, des clauses enchassees, ainsi que les constructions plus complexes telles les phrases passives, les phrases negatives ou...