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Si le temps occupe une place aussi centrale dans la discussion linguistique, et depuis si longtemps, c'est parce que ce sujet - avec ses sujets-frères que sont l'aspect, la modalité et l'évidentialité - est non seulement riche et complexe mais aussi profondément enraciné dans la langue, se manifestant à tous ses niveaux et dans une quantité importante de contextes de réflexion. Les articles recueillis dans ce volume se présentent à premier abord comme des études spécifiques sur des phénomènes précis, mais il s'avère rapidement que, de par sa nature, le sujet 'temps' ne peut pas être abordé de manière « isolée », puisqu'il parcourt la langue comme un système étendu, sans qu'on puisse en dessiner les limites avec clarté. The reason why tense has occupied such a central place in linguistic discussion, and has done so for so long, is that this topic - along with its related topics aspect, modality and evidentiality - is not only rich and complex but also deeply rooted in language, manifesting itself at all its levels and in a significant number of contexts. The contributions collected in this volume appear at first sight as specific studies of specific phenomena, but it soon becomes clear that, by its very nature, the subject of 'time' cannot be approached in 'isolation', since it runs through the language as a pervasive system, without its boundaries being clearly defined.

French language --- Aspect. --- Tense.

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Tense is at its most interesting when it behaves badly. In this book Arjan Nijk investigates the variation between the past and present tenses to refer to past events in Classical Greek and beyond. Adopting a cognitive approach to the issue, he argues that the use of the present for preterite depends on the activation of implicit conceptual scenarios in which the gap between the past and the present is bridged. The book is distinguished from previous accounts by its precision in describing these conceptual scenarios, the combination of linguistic theorising with philological and statistical methods, the size of the corpus under investigation and the explicitly cross-linguistic scope. It provides a complete overview of the phenomenon of tense switching in Classical Greek, as well as new theoretical perspectives on deixis and viewpoint, and is important for classicists, narratologists and linguists of every stamp.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages (see also Latin). --- Greek language --- Tense. --- Psycholinguistics --- Classical Greek language --- Tense --- Grec (langue)

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Bringing together fifty years' worth of cross-linguistic research, this pioneering monograph explores the complex interaction between tense, mood and aspect. It looks at the long way of combining elementary semantic units at the bottom of phrase structure up to and including the top of a sentence. Rejecting ternary tense as blocking compositionality, it introduces three levels obtained by binary tense oppositions. It also counters an outdated view on motion by assuming that change is not expressed as having an inherent goal but rather as dynamic interaction between different number systems that allows us to package information into countable and continuous units. It formally identifies the central role of a verb in a variety of argument structures and integrates adverbial modifiers into the compositional structure at different tense levels of phrase structure. This unique contribution to the field will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers in the syntax-semantics interface.

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Tense (Grammar) --- Aspect (Linguistics) --- Mode (Grammar) --- Mood (Grammar) --- Tense --- Mood --- Aspect --- Temporal constructions --- Verbal aspect --- Verb --- Tense. --- Mood. --- Aspect. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Gramàtica comparada --- Semàntica

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Si le temps occupe une place aussi centrale dans la discussion linguistique, et depuis si longtemps, c'est parce que ce sujet - avec ses sujets-frères que sont l'aspect, la modalité et l'évidentialité - est non seulement riche et complexe mais aussi profondément enraciné dans la langue, se manifestant à tous ses niveaux et dans une quantité importante de contextes de réflexion. Les articles recueillis dans ce volume se présentent à premier abord comme des études spécifiques sur des phénomènes précis, mais il s'avère rapidement que, de par sa nature, le sujet 'temps' ne peut pas être abordé de manière « isolée », puisqu'il parcourt la langue comme un système étendu, sans qu'on puisse en dessiner les limites avec clarté. The reason why tense has occupied such a central place in linguistic discussion, and has done so for so long, is that this topic - along with its related topics aspect, modality and evidentiality - is not only rich and complex but also deeply rooted in language, manifesting itself at all its levels and in a significant number of contexts. The contributions collected in this volume appear at first sight as specific studies of specific phenomena, but it soon becomes clear that, by its very nature, the subject of 'time' cannot be approached in 'isolation', since it runs through the language as a pervasive system, without its boundaries being clearly defined.

French language --- Aspect --- Tense --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Grammar