Tense across Languages

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-026611-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 541, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 559 g

Reihe: Linguistische Arbeiten

This book addresses recent developments in the study of tense from a cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic point of view. Leading international scholars explore challenging ideas about tense at the interfaces between semantics and syntax as well as syntax and morphology. The book is divided into three main subsections: 1) Tense in tenseless languages; 2) Tense, mood, and modality, and 3) Descriptive approaches to some tense phenonema. Although time is a universal dimension of the human experience, some languages encode reference to time without any grammatical tense morphology of the verb. Some of these exceptional “tenseless” languages are investigated in this volume: Kalaallisut, Paraguayan Guaraní and Movima. Modal verbs are polyfunctional in the sense that they express both tense and modality. In this volume, an untypical modal is analyzed, a modal analysis of imperatives is argued for, and sentential mood, which is closely related to modality, is analyzed. It is always interesting to look at the expression of tense in understudied languages, which is done here for Scottish Gaelic, Austronesian Rukai and German dialects. The volume can be used for graduate and undergraduate level teaching

Zielgruppe

Academics (German Studies, Linguistics), Libraries, Institutes. / Academics (German Studies, Linguistics), Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rathert, Monika

Musan, Renate

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Über Autor(innen)

Renate Musan, Universität Osnabrück; Monika Rathert, Bergische Universität Wuppertal.

Renate Musan, Universität Osnabrück; Monika Rathert, Bergische Universität Wuppertal.