Full Description
The volume proposes original semantic analyses on items marking grammatical aspect. The contributions deal with structurally divergent languages, setting to the fore some less studied forms coding aspect, revisiting or challenging certain conventionalized views on aspectual categories and shedding light on interactions between aspect and modality, another multifaceted semantic category. In doing so, the volume is intended to emphasize the diversity of aspectual systems and the fuzzy semantics of grammatical aspect and help the reader to make their own mind on a topic traditionally viewed as a subcategory of verbal aspect together with lexical aspect.
Contributors are Denis Apothéloz, Trang Phan and Nigel Duffield, Galia Hatav, Jens Fleischhauer and Ekaterina Gabrovska, Stephen M. Dickey, Adeline Patard, Laura Baranzini, Jaroslava Obrtelova.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
1 Introduction: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Semantics of Grammatical Aspect
Adeline Patard, Rea Peltola and Emmanuelle Roussel
Part 1 News on Perfects
2 La surcomposition verbale et ses emplois en français
Denis Apothéloz
3 The Vietnamese Perfect: A Compositional Analysis
Tang Phan and Nigel Duffield
Part 2 Issues on Perfectivity
4 Perfectivity and Reference-Time Building
Galia Hatav
5 Perfectivity and Atelicity: The Role of Perfective Aspect in Aspectual Composition
Jens Fleischhauer and Ekaterina Gabrovska
Part 3 Aspect Meets Modality and (Inter)subjectivity
6 Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, and the Aspect of Imperatives in Slavic Languages
Stephen M. Dickey
7 To the Roots of Fake Tense and Counterfactuality
Adeline Patard
8 Le « récit de récit » à l' imparfait en italien : la piste évidentielle
Laura Baranzini
Part 4 Grammatical Aspect Challenged
9 Discourse-Pragmatic Functions of Tense-Aspect Verb Forms in Wakhi
Jaroslava Obrtelova
Index
