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Romance languages --- Historical linguistics --- Grammar --- Langues romanes --- Tense --- Temps --- Grammar, Historical --- -Romance languages --- -Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Tense. --- Grammar, Historical. --- -Grammar, Historical --- Neo-Latin languages --- Grammatica. --- Historische taalkunde. --- Romaanse taalkunde. --- Romance languages - Tense --- Romance languages - Grammar, Historical

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Chaucer, Geoffrey --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Pragmatics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Temps (Linguistique) --- Tense --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Discourse analysis --- Congresses. --- -Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Conferences - Meetings --- -Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- -Congresses --- Grammar, Comparative --- -Tense --- Congrès --- Comparative grammar --- Tense&delete& --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Tense - Congresses. --- Discourse analysis - Congresses

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English language --- Grammar --- Anglais (Langue) --- Tense --- Temps --- Engelse taal --- werkwoorden --- progressief aspect --- progressief aspect. --- Werkwoorden --- Progressief aspect.

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This work demonstrates that what is commonly called 'preterite decay in Upper German' (PS; cf. German Präteritumschwund) is in fact a phenomenon common to a great number of European languages, all of which are in areal con-tact. However, the conclusion that this is a phenomenon arising under areal influence appears clearly mistaken - not only so because it would no more than postpone the search for the real trigger of this development. It will be shown, first, that the preterite loss in the languages under inspection comes in different states of completion. It will be seen that the loss of the preterite, under this perspective, German is by no means a completed process. Second, and what is more, it will be argued that the trigger for this decay of the synthetic preterite and its replacement by analytic preterite forms is the specific criteria under which oral (as opposed to written) communication is executed. Counter to the rich, existing literature on the topic, a number of parsing principles will be claimed to be responsible for this diachronic development yielding different results due to a different execution of these principles.

Discourse analysis. --- German language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic change. --- Parsing. --- Tense. --- Discourse analysis --- Linguistic change --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Tense (Grammar) --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Parsing (Grammar) --- Parsing --- Tense --- Temporal constructions --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology

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This Cahiers Chronos volume reports on new and ongoing research on tense, aspect and modality in which a variety of languages has been gathered. The languages discussed by the authors include (in alphabetical order): Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Spanish. The articles form a selection of the papers presented at the 5th Chronos Conference that took place at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in June 2002. We have categorized the papers into three sections: Tense, Aspect and Modality. Obviously, this ordering is somewhat arbitrary given that some of the papers cross these rather rigid boundaries, as they discuss the interplay of tense and aspect or tense and modality. This book is of interest for scholars in the field of semantics, logic, syntax, and comparative linguistics.

801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Discourse analysis --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Aspect --- Tense