Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect, and epistemic modality
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Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect, and epistemic modality
（Human cognitive processing, v. 29）
John Benjamins, c2011
Available at 29 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is understood as indicating "a degree of compatibility between the modal world and the factual world" (Declerck). All contributions, moreover, tackle these problems from a more or less cognitive point of view, with some of them insisting on the need to provide a unifying explanation for all usage types, temporal and non-temporal, and all of them accepting the premise that the semantics of TA categories essentially refers to subjective, rather than objective, concerns. The volume also represents one of the first attempts to gather accounts of TA marking (in various languages) that are explicitly set within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Ultimately, this volume aims to contribute to establishing an awareness that modal meaning elements are directly relevant to the analysis of the grammar of time.
Table of Contents
- 1. List of contributors
- 2. Acknowledgments
- 3. Introduction: Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect, and epistemic modality (by Brisard, Frank)
- 4. Part I. Theoretical foundations
- 5. The definition of modality (by Declerck, Renaat)
- 6. The English present: Temporal coincidence vs. epistemic immediacy (by Langacker, Ronald W.)
- 7. The organization of the German clausal grounding system (by Smirnova, Elena)
- 8. Grounding in terms of anchoring relations: Epistemic associations of 'present continuous' marking in Turkish (by Temurcu, Ceyhan)
- 9. Part II. Descriptive application: Cognitive Grammar
- 10. Some remarks on the role of the reference point in the construal configuration of "more" and "less" grounding predications (by Smirnova, Elena)
- 11. New current relevance in Croatian: Epistemic immediacy and the aorist (by Stanojevic, Mateusz-Milan)
- 12. Aspect as a scanning device in natural language processing: The case of Arabic (by Zanned, Lazhar)
- 13. Part III. Descriptive application: Other cognitive approaches
- 14. Imperfective aspect and epistemic modality (by Boogaart, Ronny)
- 15. Communicating about the past through modality in English and Thai (by Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M.)
- 16. The epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imparfait: When temporality conveys modality (by Patard, Adeline)
- 17. Name Index
- 18. Subject Index
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