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...

Qu'il s'agisse de temps verbaux, d'auxiliaires, d'adverbes ou de conjonctions, la plupart des marqueurs temporels et modaux font preuve d'une grande flexibilite semantique, qui se manifeste a travers leurs emplois dans des contextes differents. Les contributions reunies dans ce volume s'interessent en majorite aux emplois d'une serie de marqueurs du francais ( hexagonal ou non), mais aussi au fonctionnement de marqueurs d'autres langues (par exemple de l'espagnol ou du birman). Elles s'efforcent de decrire d'une facon detaillee les differentes interpretations de ces marqueurs, en privilegiant...