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Zeit ohne Tempus : zur temporalen Interpretation satzwertiger Infinitive im Deutschen
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ISBN: 9783860574713 386057471X Year: 2011 Volume: 80 Publisher: Tübingen: Stauffenburg,


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From now to eternity
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ISBN: 1283009293 9786613009296 9042032685 9789042032682 9789042032675 9042032677 9781283009294 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam New York Rodopi

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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 locative constructions; a new typology of accomplishments and achievements; the compatibility of (im)perfective aspect with negation; temporal properties of gerundive adjunct clauses in Portuguese; the Present Perfective Puzzle; the multiple meanings of the present perfect in the Germanic languages; modal uses of present and non-present tenses in Dutch and French; the impossibility to use ‘perfective’ viewpoint tenses in conditional protases.


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Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect and epistemic modality
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ISBN: 9789027223838 9789027285218 9027223831 9027285217 1283174839 9786613174833 9781283174831 6613174831 Year: 2011 Volume: 29 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia, PA. John Benjamins

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This chapter explores the connection between past tense and modality in English and French. After arguing for a temporal definition of past tenses, I reinterpret the classical opposition between temporal uses and modal uses in terms of the speakers's referential or subjective intentionality. I further distinguish between the epistemic uses - which express the speaker's assessment of the probability of the denoted situation - and the illocutory uses - which express the speaker's degree of commitment in her speech act. I finally suggest an analysis of two epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imperfect, namely their conditional use and optative use, thanks to the notion of dialogism, which refers to the heterogeneity of the enunciative sources of a given utterance.

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