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Time and Modality is a unique work of reference; not only does it unite studies which explore the syntax and semantics of tense or modality but it is the first book of its kind to embrace the interaction of tense and modality within a coherent generative model. Various topics are covered in this volume: among them are the counterfactual uses of conditionals, modals, and past tense; the irrealis use of perfective aspect; a special English subjunctive; the interaction of tense assignment and the definition of an event; the modal verb as a causative verb; the interaction of modality, tense, and aktionsart; the contrast between deontic and epistemic modal with respect to tense interpretation; the syntax of epistemic modals; the long-awaited definition of generic and habitual sentence; and the introduction of intensionality in copular clauses. Although every article deals with English to some degree, two chapters compare the syntax and semantics of tense and modality in Spanish vs English. The authors also investigate Slavic, Germanic, Afro-Asiatic, Oriental, Amerindian Languages and Hungarian.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Tense. --- Temporal constructions. --- Temporal constructions (Grammar) --- Tense (Grammar) --- Syntax --- Temporal constructions --- Modality --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Inhoudsopgave : -- Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events / Malka Rappaport Hovav -- Telicity, atomicity, and the Vendler classification of verbs / Susan Rothstein -- Aspects of a typology of direction / Joost Zwarts -- 1066: On the differences between the tense-perspective-aspect systems of English and Dutch / Fred Landman -- Tenses for the living and the dead / Anita Mittwoch -- Formal and informal semantics of telicity / Elena Paduceva and Mati Pentus -- Events and maximalization: the case of telicity and perfectivity / Hana Filip -- Aspect and bounded quantity complements in Russian / Hans Robert Mehlig -- Negation, intensionality, and aspect / Barbara H. Partee -- Habituality and the habitual aspect / Nora Boneh and Edit Doron -- Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora / Maria Bittner -- The syntax and semantics of change/transition: evidence from Mandarin Chinese / Hooi Ling Soh -- Bare nouns and telicity in Japanese / Keiko Yoshida.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics. --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Aspect (Linguistics) --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Aspect. --- Verbal aspect --- Temporal constructions --- Verb --- Typology --- Classification --- Semantics --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Aspect --- Semantiek. --- Typologie (linguïstiek). --- Vergelijkende en algemene grammatica --- Werkwoorden --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Philology