From now to eternity /
From now to eternity /
edited by Jesse Mortelmans, Tanja Mortelmans and Walter De Mulder.
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
- 1 online resource (v, 209 pages)
- Cahiers Chronos ; 22 .
- Cahiers Chronos ; 22. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Non-state imperfectives in Romance and West-Germanic: How does Germanic render the progressive?; Aspectual symmetry between indirect locative and external arguments: the French case; Revisiting the distinction between accomplishments and achievements; Negation and perfective vs. imperfective aspect; Some semantic aspects of gerundive clauses in European Portuguese; Introducing the present perfective puzzle; Why the present perfect differs cross-linguistically. Some new insights (Non)-modal uses of the present indicative in Dutch legislationAttenuation in French simple tenses; Towards a novel aspectuo-temporal account of conditionals
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 7th Chronos colloquium in Antwerp (2006). They specifically focus on issues dealing with the categories of Aktionsart, aspect and tense, and the possible relations between these categories, mainly in Germanic and Romance languages. Some of the papers in this collection put the relation between tense and modal meaning into focus, which was in fact the Antwerp conference's special topic. More in particular, the papers in this volume deal with: non-state imperfectives in Romance and West-Germanic, aspectual properties of French l.
9789042032682 (electronic bk.) 9042032685 (electronic bk.)
9786613009296
300929 MIL
Grammar, Comparative and general--Congresses.
Grammaire comparée et générale--Congrès.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
P151 / .C65 2006eb
415
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Non-state imperfectives in Romance and West-Germanic: How does Germanic render the progressive?; Aspectual symmetry between indirect locative and external arguments: the French case; Revisiting the distinction between accomplishments and achievements; Negation and perfective vs. imperfective aspect; Some semantic aspects of gerundive clauses in European Portuguese; Introducing the present perfective puzzle; Why the present perfect differs cross-linguistically. Some new insights (Non)-modal uses of the present indicative in Dutch legislationAttenuation in French simple tenses; Towards a novel aspectuo-temporal account of conditionals
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 7th Chronos colloquium in Antwerp (2006). They specifically focus on issues dealing with the categories of Aktionsart, aspect and tense, and the possible relations between these categories, mainly in Germanic and Romance languages. Some of the papers in this collection put the relation between tense and modal meaning into focus, which was in fact the Antwerp conference's special topic. More in particular, the papers in this volume deal with: non-state imperfectives in Romance and West-Germanic, aspectual properties of French l.
9789042032682 (electronic bk.) 9042032685 (electronic bk.)
9786613009296
300929 MIL
Grammar, Comparative and general--Congresses.
Grammaire comparée et générale--Congrès.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
P151 / .C65 2006eb
415