The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167
The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167
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Written by a well-known expert in the field, this book presents a universally applicable model of how natural language speakers deal with time in natural language, by combining semantic building blocks into larger wholes. It will be essential reading for researchers and advanced students in syntax and the syntax-semantics interface.
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The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167 by Henk J Verkuyl
Bringing together fifty years' worth of cross-linguistic research, this pioneering monograph explores the complex interaction between tense, mood and aspect. It looks at the long way of combining elementary semantic units at the bottom of phrase structure up to and including the top of a sentence. Rejecting ternary tense as blocking compositionality, it introduces three levels obtained by binary tense oppositions. It also counters an outdated view on motion by assuming that change is not expressed as having an inherent goal but rather as dynamic interaction between different number systems that allows us to package information into countable and continuous units. It formally identifies the central role of a verb in a variety of argument structures and integrates adverbial modifiers into the compositional structure at different tense levels of phrase structure. This unique contribution to the field will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers in the syntax-semantics interface.
'The work is excellent and focusedIt is written in a coherent and formal style. It has thus successfully achieved its objectives.' Hassan Makhad, Linguist
Henk J. Verkuyl is Professor Emeritus University of Utrecht Research Institute UIL OTS. This book rounds off a suite of works on tense and aspect, including On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects (1972), A Theory of Aspectuality (CUP, 1993) and Binary Tense (2008).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108839280 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108839282 |
| Title | The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167 |
| Author | Henk J Verkuyl |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Linguistics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2021-10-14 |
| Number of pages | 250 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |