Mood, aspect, modality revisited : new answers to old questions

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Mood, aspect, modality revisited : new answers to old questions

edited by Joanna Błaszczak ... [et al.]

University of Chicago Press, 2016

  • : cloth

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Other editors: Anastasia Giannakidou, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Krzysztof Migdalski

Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • TAM coding and temporal interpretation in west African languages / Anne Mucha and Malte Zimmermann
  • Modals : meaning categories? / Valentine Hacquard
  • Epistemic future and epistemic MUST : nonveridicality, evidence, and partial knowledge / Anastasia Giannakidou and Alda Mari
  • On finiteness and the left periphery : focusing on subjunctive / Manuela Ambar
  • Evaluative subjunctive and nonveridicality / Anastasia Giannakidou
  • The essence of a category : lessons from the subjunctive / Martina Wiltschko
  • Imperatives as (non-)modals / Mark Jary and Mikhail Kissine
  • Approaching the morphosyntax and semantics of mood / Ilse Zimmermann
  • Aspectual composition and recursion / Henriëtte de Swart
  • Can semantic theories be tested experimentally? : the case of aspectual coercion / Oliver Bott
  • Aspectual coercion versus blocking : experimental evidence from an ERP study of Polish converbs / Joanna Błaszczak and Dorota Klimek-Jankowska

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内容説明

Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with an intensely growing body of crosslinguistic studies, have revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories. Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited argues that it's time to revisit our conventional assumptions, and reconsider our foundational questions: What exactly is a linguistic category? What kinds of categories do labels such as "subjunctive," "imperative," "future," and "modality" truly refer to? In short, how categorical are categories? Current literature assumes a straightforward link between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages have cultivated a sense of predictability in patterns over time. As the editors and contributors of Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited prove, however, this predictability and stability vanish in the study of lesser-known patterns and languages. The ten provocative essays gathered here present fascinating cutting-edge research that demonstrates that the traditional grammatical distinctions are ultimately fluid and perhaps even illusory. Developing groundbreaking and highly original theories, contributors in this volume seek out to unravel more general, fundamental principles of TAM that can help us better understand the nature of linguistic representations.

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