This volume offers a variety of perspectives on two of the main topics situated at the crossroads between lexical semantics and syntax, namely: (a) aspect and its correspondence with syntactic structure; and (b) the delimitation of syntactic structures from verb classes. Almost from Aristotle s Metaphysics, it has been assumed that verbs invoke a mental image about the way in which eventualities are distributed over time. When it comes to determining time schemata, the lexical class to which the verb belongs represents a first step. Speaking about verb classes does not exclusively mean...

El futuro es una cuestion que ha preocupado a fisicos, filosofos y linguistas desde siempre. Desde una perspectiva linguistica, su analisis ha generado una serie de interrogantes: ?Es una forma temporal o modal? ?Que categoria linguistica describe mejor el futuro, la modalidad o la evidencialidad? Recientemente, ademas, ha entrado en el debate su comportamiento discursivo. El futuro en espanol ofrece una explicacion sistematica de los distintos valores de esta forma verbal, basada en la instruccion deictica de distancia hacia delante, que justifica su funcionamiento como una forma temporal...