Full Description
This volume brings together a collection of articles exploring tense and aspect phenomena in a variety of non-related languages: Indo-European (Albanian, Bulgarian, Armenian, English, Norwegian, Hindi), Hamito-Semitic (Berber, Zenaga Berber, Arabic varieties, Neo-Aramaic), African (Wolof, Langi), Asian (Badaga, Korean, Mongolian languages - Khalkha, Buriat, Kalmuck - Thaï, Tibetic languages), Amerindian (Yucatec Maya, Sikuani), Greenlandic (Eskimo) and Oceanian (Nêlêmwa). Each article is grounded in solid empirical knowledge. It offers an in-depth study of aspectual and temporal devices as manifested in many diverse and complex ways from a cross-linguistic perspective and seeks to contribute to our understanding of the domain under consideration and more broadly to linguistic typology and theoretical linguistics, especially the enunciative approach. The book gives readers access to a collection of data and is of particular interest to scholars working on aspectuality and temporality, on pragmatics, on areal linguistics and on typology.
Contents
1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction (by Guentcheva, Zlatka); 3. Part I. Theoretical issues; 4. A cognitive and conceptual approach to tense and aspect markers (by Descles, Jean-Pierre); 5. Part II. Grammatical encoding of aspectual and temporal distinctions; 6. Tense, aspect and mood in Nelemwa (New Caledonia): Encoding events, processes and states (by Bril, Isabelle); 7. On the tense-aspect system of standard Thai* (by Gsell, Rene); 8. Dravidian conceptual basis for the Badaga "tenses" (by Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane); 9. Tense and aspect in the verbal system of Wolof* (by Robert, Stephane); 10. Tense and aspect in Langi* (by Dunham, Margaret); 11. Aspect in Sikuani (by Queixalos, Francesc); 12. Part III. Grammatical aspect and Aktionsarten; 13. Aspect-tense relations in East Greenlandic (by Mennecier, Philippe); 14. On interaction between external and internal markers in expressing aspect in Arabic dialect varieties (by Naim, Samia); 15. Part IV. Indo-European Aorist and Hamito-Semitic Aorist; 16. The aorist and the perfect in Albanian* (by Duchet, Jean-Louis); 17. The aorist in Modern Armenian: Core values and contextual meanings (by Donabedian, Anaid); 18. The verbal form V-a in Hindi/Urdu: An aorist with "aoristic" meanings (by Montaut, Annie); 19. The aorist in Berber (by Galand, Lionel); 20. The Aorist in Zenaga Berber and the Imperfective in two Arabic dialects: A comparative viewpoint (by Taine-Cheikh, Catherine); 21. Part V. Perfects and resultatives; 22. Modern Greek -tos (tauomicronsigmaf) and -menos (muepsilonnuomicronsigmaf): Two truly aspectual suffixes* (by Valma, Eleni); 23. Resultative Interpretation of Predicates in Korean* (by Choi-Jonin, Injoo); 24. On two types of result: Resultatives revisited* (by Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Mila); 25. Part VI. The Future and future reference; 26. Future and prospective in the Mongolic languages (by Binnick, Robert I.); 27. The future tenses in the Tibetic languages: Diachronic and dialectal perspectives (by Tournadre, Nicolas); 28. No escape from the future: Temporal frames and prediction in Yucatec Maya* (by Vapnarsky, Valentina); 29. The Bulgarian future in light of the temporal frames of reference (by Guentcheva, Zlatka); 30. Part VII. Grammatical change; 31. Aspect as the source of diathesis in NorthEastern Neo-Aramaic and beyond with remarks on transitivity, accusativity, ergativity and case (by Kirtchuk-Halevi, Pablo I.); 32. Language Index; 33. Author Index; 34. Subject Index
