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Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Phrase (Linguistique) --- Modes (Linguistique) --- Sentences --- Mood --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Mood. --- Sentences. --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Language and languages --- Sentences (Grammar) --- Mode (Grammar) --- Mood (Grammar) --- Verb --- Linguistics --- Philology

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This book presents the essential background for understanding semantic theories of mood. 'Mood' as a category is widely used in the description of languages and the formal analysis of their grammatical properties. It typically refers to the features of a sentence-individual morphemes or grammatical patterns-that reflect how the sentence contributes to the modal meaning of a larger phrase, or that indicate the type of fundamental pragmatic function that it has in conversation. In this volume, Paul Portner discusses the most significant semantic theories relating to the two main subtypes of mood: verbal mood, including the categories of indicative and subjunctive subordinate clauses, and sentence mood, encompassing declaratives, interrogatives, and imperatives. He evaluates those theories, compares them, and draws connections between seemingly disparate approaches, and he formalizes some of the literature's most important ideas in new ways in order to draw out their most significant insights.0Ultimately, this work shows that there are crucial connections between verbal mood and sentence mood which point the way towards a more general understanding of how mood works and its relation to other topics in linguistics; it also outlines the type of semantic and pragmatic theory which will make it possible to explain these relations. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of semantics and pragmatics, philosophy, computer science, and psychology.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Mood --- Mode (Grammar) --- Mood (Grammar) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Verb --- Sémantique --- Modes (linguistique) --- Grammaire comparée --- Sémantique. --- Grammaire comparée. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics

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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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This book is the first comprehensive survey of mood in the languages of Europe. It gives readers access to a collection of data on mood. Each article presents the mood system of a specific European language in a way that readers not familiar with this language are able to understand and to interpret the data. The articles contain information on the morphology and semantics of the mood system, the possible combinations of tense and mood morphology, and the possible uses of the non-indica­tive mood(s). The papers address the explanation of mood from an empirical and descriptive perspective. This book is of interest to scholars of mood and modality, language contact, and areal linguistics and typology.

Modality (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Mood. --- Grammar --- Linguistics --- Mode (Grammar) --- Mood (Grammar) --- Mood --- Verb --- Philology --- Grammaire comparée --- Modalité (linguistique) --- Grammaire comparative et générale --- Langues indo-européennes --- Grammaire comparée --- Modalité (linguistique) --- Grammaire comparative et générale --- Langues indo-européennes

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The present volume is a collection of fourteen original papers selected from those presented at the first US installment of Chronos: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality, which took place at the University of Texas at Austin in October, 2008. The volume serves as an excellent forum for international scholars working on expressions of on tense, aspect, mood and modality. It contains papers dealing with a diverse variety of languages ranging from well studied languages like English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese, to less known ones like Basque, Chamorro, Iquito, Australian English and Singlish. The originality and relevance of the individual contributions is highlighted by the broadness of the theoretical approaches they employ and the novel empirical data they examine. All the studies go beyond exploring issues strictly related to tense, aspect, mood and modality; rather, they cut across all main linguistics subfields, such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition and language evolution, thus attesting to how research on tense, aspect, mood and modality is vital to the better understanding of human language in general. This diverse nature of the volume will certainly appeal to broad audience.

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Modality (Linguistics). --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Aspekt --- Modalität --- Modus. --- Tempus. --- Aspekt. --- Modalität. --- igeidő. --- modalitás --- nyelvtan --- Aspect. --- Tense. --- Mood. --- Nyelvészet. --- Tanulmányok. --- Tense (Grammar) --- Mode (Grammar) --- Mood (Grammar) --- Aspect (Linguistics) --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Tense --- Aspect --- Mood --- Temporal constructions --- Verb --- Verbal aspect --- Grammar, Comparative --- Modality (Linguistics)