Tense and Aspect in Discourse

Tense and Aspect in Discourse
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 3110138131
ISBN-13 : 9783110138139
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Synopsis Tense and Aspect in Discourse by : Co Vet

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect

The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 1128
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ISBN-10 : 9780195381979
ISBN-13 : 0195381971
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect by : Robert I. Binnick

This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.

The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology

The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 499
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ISBN-10 : 9789027296252
ISBN-13 : 9027296251
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Synopsis The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology by : M. Rafael Salaberry

The present volume provides a cross-linguistic perspective on the development of tense-aspect in L2 acquisition. Data-based studies included in this volume deal with the analysis of a wide range of target languages: Chinese, English, Italian, French, Japanese, and Spanish. Theoretical frameworks used to evaluate the nature of the empirical evidence range from generative grammar to functional-typological linguistics. Several studies focus on the development of past tense markers, but other issues such as the acquisition of a future marker are also addressed. An introductory chapter outlines some theoretical and methodological issues that serves as relevant preliminary reading for most of the chapters included in this volume. Additionally, a preliminary chapter offers a substantive review of first language acquisition of tense-aspect morphology. The analysis of the various languages included in this volume significantly advances our understanding of this phenomenon, and will serve as an important basis for future research.

Verbal Aspect in Discourse

Verbal Aspect in Discourse
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 479
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ISBN-10 : 9789027250124
ISBN-13 : 902725012X
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Synopsis Verbal Aspect in Discourse by : Nils B. Thelin

In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the discourse/situation level. Hereby it attempts to relate these functions to each other in ways that stimulate consistently language processing on a more solid perceptual-conceptual and pragmatic basis. Reflecting in various ways this general tendency. The 13 papers collected in this volume are oriented to four fields of research: (1) Developmental properties of aspect and tense; (2) Ideo-pragmatic and conceptual-semantic correlates of aspect and the perspectival organisation of discourse; (3) Aspect, case and discourse; (4) and Aspect in literary discourse. The editor's Introduction gives a comprehensive survey of contemporary aspectology and its development towards a proper integration of discourse/situation conditions. Besides cross-linguistic considerations (including English), the languages analyzed specifically are Russian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, French and Finnish.

The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 1412
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ISBN-10 : 9781107354586
ISBN-13 : 1107354587
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax by : Marcel den Dikken

Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality

Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9789027255310
ISBN-13 : 9027255318
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Synopsis Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality by : Lotte Hogeweg

Preface -- 1. The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world / Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop & Andrej Malchukov -- 2. Incompatible categories: Resolving the 'present perfective paradox' / Andrej L. Malchukov -- 3. The perfective/imperfective distinction: Coercion or aspectual operators? / Corien Bary -- 4. Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe / Peter M. Arkadiev -- 5. Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments / Sergei Tatevosov & Mikhail Ivanov -- 6. The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la 'come' and .wà 'go' / Nicoletta Romeo -- 7. Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: On the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category / Rik van Gijn & Sonja Gipper -- 8. On the selection of mood in complement clauses / Rui Marques -- 9. 'Out of control' marking as circumstantial modality in St'át'imcets / Henry Davis, Lisa Matthewson & Hotze Rullmann -- 10. Modal geometry: Remarks on the structure of a modal map / Kees de Schepper & Joost Zwarts -- 11. Acquisitive modals / Johan van der Auwera, Petar Kehayov & Alice Vittrant -- 12. Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries / Ad Foolen & Helen de Hoop -- 13. Modality and context dependence / Fabrice Nauze -- 14. Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity: Russian genitive objects / Barbara H. Partee & Vladimir Borschev -- 15. The Estonian partitive evidential: Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories / Anne Tamm -- Index.

Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition

Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition
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Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Total Pages : 492
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ISBN-10 : 0631221492
ISBN-13 : 9780631221494
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition by : Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig

This volume explores the acquisition of tense and aspect by adult second language learners of nine target languages. The author focuses on the association of form and meaning in leaders' emerging system of temporal expression. The book provides a survey and synthesis of studies from five perspectives: the meaning-oriented approach, acquisitional sentences, the aspect hypothesis, the discourse hypothesis, and the effect of instruction. In addition, original longitudinal and cross-sectional studies on the acquisition of English by the author illustrate each of the perspectives and explore the importance of research design and analysis in acquisition research.

The Handbook of Korean Linguistics

The Handbook of Korean Linguistics
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 528
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ISBN-10 : 9781119016878
ISBN-13 : 1119016878
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Handbook of Korean Linguistics by : Lucien Brown

The Handbook of Korean Linguistics presents state-of-the-art overviews of the linguistic research on the Korean language. • Structured to allow a range of theoretical perspectives in addressing linguistic phenomena • Includes chapters on Old Korean and Middle Korean, present-day language policies in North and South Korea, social aspects of Korean as a heritage language, and honorifics • Indispensable and unique resource not only for those studying Korean linguistics but cross-linguistic research in general

The verb in Nyakyusa

The verb in Nyakyusa
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Publisher : Language Science Press
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9783961100149
ISBN-13 : 3961100144
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The verb in Nyakyusa by : Bastian Persohn

Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse.

Sign Language

Sign Language
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 0521357179
ISBN-13 : 9780521357173
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Sign Language by : Jim G. Kyle

The discovery of the importance of sign language in the deaf community is very recent indeed. This book provides a study of the communication and culture of deaf people, and particularly of the deaf community in Britain. The authors' principal aim is to inform educators, psychologists, linguists and professionals working with deaf people about the rich language the deaf have developed for themselves - a language of movement and space, of the hands and of the eyes, of abstract communication as well as iconic story telling. The first chapters of the book discuss the history of sign language use, its social aspects and the issues surrounding the language acquisition of deaf children (BSL) follows, and the authors also consider how the signs come into existence, change over time and alter their meanings, and how BSL compares and contrasts with spoken languages and other signed languages. Subsequent chapters examine sign language learning from a psychological perspective and other cognitive issues. The book concludes with a consideration of the applications of sign language research, particularly in the contentious field of education. There is still much to be discovered about sign language and the deaf community, but the authors have succeeded in providing an extensive framework on which other researchers can build, from which professionals can develop a coherent practice for their work with deaf people, and from which hearing parents of deaf children can draw the confidence to understand their children's world.