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"Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languages, from Ayatal to Zapotec, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field of tense and aspect research resulting in 18 contributions on the perfect and some of its close relatives (e.g. iamitives). Different approaches complement each other to shed light on the source, emergence, grammaticalization, and the typological extension of perfect constructions cross-linguistically. One focal point is the so-called aoristic drift, where the perfect comes to resemble the simple past or aorist (often via the hodiernal 'today' reading). The semantics and pragmatics of perfects are also investigated through their interaction with other categories (e.g. negation, mood). Over time some perfects undergo auxiliary doubling or omission, or the auxiliary becomes subject to selection. These facts also receive special attention in this book, presenting new insights on perfects in both well-studied as well as very understudied languages"--

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Tense --- Auxiliaries

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"Les 6 et 7 septembre 2018, des journées d'étude en l'honneur de Jacques Bres avaient été organisées à Montpellier pour célébrer son départ à la retraite. Ce numéro spécial revisite avec une rigueur toute bressienne les communications de la deuxième journée. Derrière le bouquet de réflexions qu'apporte chaque contributeur se cache un minutieux travail de relecture."-- Provided by publisher.

French language --- Discourse analysis. --- Grammar. --- Tense. --- Mood. --- Aspect. --- Bres, Jacques.

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The Evolution of Spanish Past Forms examines how Spanish past forms have changed diachronically. With examples from Medieval Spanish, Golden Age Spanish and Modern Spanish literary works, this book demonstrates how language is dynamic and susceptible to change. The past forms considered here include the preterit, the imperfect, the imperfect progressive with estar (temporal to be), the present perfect, the imperfect progressive with other auxiliary verbs, the preterit progressive with estar, and the preterit progressive with other auxiliary verbs. This book will be of interest to scholars and graduate students investigating tense and aspect phenomena in Spanish and other languages, grammaticalization processes, and language variation and change.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Spanish language --- History. --- Tense --- Castilian language --- Romance languages

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Qui ne s’est un jour demandé ce qu’est vraiment le temps ? Quelle est sa réalité ? Quelles propriétés lui reconnaître ? Nous avons l'impression que le temps passe ou s’écoule. Mais cela correspond-il à sa nature réelle ? Comment rendre compte des distinctions entre passé, présent, futur ? Les enseignements des sciences contredisent-ils notre conception ordinaire du temps ? Ces interrogations, aussi anciennes que la philosophie elle-même, ont fait l’objet d’un examen renouvelé dans la métaphysique contemporaine. Sans prétendre à l'exhaustivité, les contributions réunies dans ce volume entendent offrir un guide des questions les plus disputées, aujourd'hui, en ce domaine.

Philosophy --- metaphysics --- time --- flow of time --- A and B theory --- temporal ontology --- tense --- temps --- métaphysique --- passage du temps --- théorie A et théorie B --- présentisme --- éternalisme --- perdurantisme et endurantisme --- théorie du bloc en expansion --- Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

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Focusing on French, this collection of articles spans different facets of second language acquisition research, including different areas of a learner’s language system in French such as the development of verbal, nominal, and adjectival morphology. Other articles explore input matters relating to the learner’s language exposure as well as the role of individual factors in the learner’s developmental trajectory. The studies presented offer insight into contemporary developments in relation to the investigation of both well-established and newer emerging themes and issues in second language acquisition research and showcase the contributions of French in such work. They draw on different approaches and methods to offer an exploration of contemporary areas of focus in French second language acquisition among learners of different source languages, at different levels of development, and in different learning contexts.

Language --- tense --- aspect --- mood --- modality --- L2 French --- Interface hypothesis --- longitudinal study --- study abroad --- proficiency --- self-perceived proficiency --- linguistic gains --- French --- L2 acquisition --- verb morphology --- subject-verb agreement --- number --- transfer --- cross-linguistic influence --- collocation --- frequency --- MI score --- Log Dice --- stay abroad --- instructional practices --- proficiency outcomes --- French as a second language --- CEFR --- DELF --- action-oriented instruction --- task-based language teaching --- aller + V --- SLA --- spatial reference --- discursive function --- French L2 acquisition --- addition --- scope particles --- German L1 --- syntactic embedding --- prosody --- discourse cohesion --- vocabulary depth --- L3 French --- vocabulary knowledge --- spelling --- form-meaning --- word parts --- migration --- adult SLA --- high performance --- individual factors --- input --- morphosyntax --- usage-based approaches --- motivation --- LOTEs --- French as a foreign language --- ideal self --- intervention --- noun phrase --- determiner system --- French L2 --- beginning stages in L2 --- ESF corpus --- Spanish L1 --- Moroccan Arabic L1 --- L2 learner productions --- Basic Variety --- learner varieties