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Time and Modality is a unique work of reference; not only does it unite studies which explore the syntax and semantics of tense or modality but it is the first book of its kind to embrace the interaction of tense and modality within a coherent generative model. Various topics are covered in this volume: among them are the counterfactual uses of conditionals, modals, and past tense; the irrealis use of perfective aspect; a special English subjunctive; the interaction of tense assignment and the definition of an event; the modal verb as a causative verb; the interaction of modality, tense, and aktionsart; the contrast between deontic and epistemic modal with respect to tense interpretation; the syntax of epistemic modals; the long-awaited definition of generic and habitual sentence; and the introduction of intensionality in copular clauses. Although every article deals with English to some degree, two chapters compare the syntax and semantics of tense and modality in Spanish vs English. The authors also investigate Slavic, Germanic, Afro-Asiatic, Oriental, Amerindian Languages and Hungarian.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Tense. --- Temporal constructions. --- Temporal constructions (Grammar) --- Tense (Grammar) --- Syntax --- Temporal constructions --- Modality --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Time and Modality is a unique work of reference; not only does it unite studies which explore the syntax and semantics of tense or modality but it is the first book of its kind to embrace the interaction of tense and modality within a coherent generative model. Various topics are covered in this volume: among them are the counterfactual uses of conditionals, modals, and past tense; the irrealis use of perfective aspect; a special English subjunctive; the interaction of tense assignment and the definition of an event; the modal verb as a causative verb; the interaction of modality, tense, and aktionsart; the contrast between deontic and epistemic modal with respect to tense interpretation; the syntax of epistemic modals; the long-awaited definition of generic and habitual sentence; and the introduction of intensionality in copular clauses. Although every article deals with English to some degree, two chapters compare the syntax and semantics of tense and modality in Spanish vs English. The authors also investigate Slavic, Germanic, Afro-Asiatic, Oriental, Amerindian Languages and Hungarian.

Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Grammar --- taalfilosofie --- Lexicology. Semantics --- semantiek --- syntaxis --- spraaktechnologie --- linguïstiek --- Tense (Logic). --- Modality (Logic). --- Deontic logic. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Temporal constructions. --- Tense. --- 801.56 --- Tense (Grammar) --- Temporal constructions (Grammar) --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Temporal constructions --- Tense --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Any analysis of the syntax of time is based on a paradox: it must include a syntax-based theory of both tense construal and event construal. Yet while time is undimensional, events have a complex spatiotemporal structure that reflects their human participants. How can an event be flattened to fit into the linear time axis? Chomsky's The Minimalist Program, published in 1995, offers a way to address this problem. The studies collected in The Syntax of Time investigate whether problems concerning the construal of tense and aspect can be reduced to syntactic problems for which the basic mechanism and principles of generative grammar already provide solutions. These studies, recent work by leading international scholars in the field, offer varied perspectives on the syntax of tense and the temporal construal of events: models of tense interpretation, construal of verbal forms, temporal aspect versus lexical aspect, the relation between the event and its argument structure, and the interaction of case with aktionsart or tense construal. Advances in the theory of temporal interpretation in the sentence are also applied to the temporal interpretation of nominals.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Temporal constructions. --- Syntax. --- Temporal constructions --- Syntax --- Language and languages --- Temporal constructions (Grammar) --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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This volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages discussed include (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and Old Egyptian.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Linguistics / General --- Afroasiatic languages --- Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Afrasian languages --- Afro-Asiatic languages --- Erythraic languages --- Hamito-Semitic languages --- Semito-Hamitic languages --- Grammar --- Langues chamito-sémitiques --- Congresses --- Grammaire --- Congrès