Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #: The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #: The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167
Henk J Verkuyl
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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 It also counters an outdated view on motion by assuming that change is not expressed as having an inherent goal but rather as dynamic interaction between different number systems that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.

Acquisition of Syntactic Structure, The: Animacy and Thematic Alignment
Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167, The
Dependency and Directionality
Emergence of Meaning, The
Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring: Volume 168: Aspects of Afro-Hispanic Linguistics
Modular Architecture of Grammar, The
Morphological Typology: From Word to Paradigm
Morphosyntactic Change: A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes
Null Subjects
Symmetry Breaking in Syntax
Syntax of Relative Clauses, The: A Unified Analysis

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
Published: 30 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 250

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