The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect

by Binnick, Robert I.

• ISBN13: 9780195381979
• ISBN10: 0195381971
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Tense and aspect are means by which language refers to time-how an event takes place in the past, present, or future. They play a key role in understanding the grammar and structure of all languages, and interest in them reaches across linguistics. The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that currently form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas. The volume contains 36 chapters, divided into 6 sections, written by internationally known experts in theoretical linguistics.

Author Biography

Robert I. Binnick is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Toronto. His main research areas are Mongolian and Altaic languages in general, and the semantics of tense and verbal aspect. He is author of Modern Mongolian (1976) and Time and the Verb (1991).

Table of Contents

Preface
List of symbols and abbreviations
About the authors
Introduction
Robert I. Binnick
Part I. Contexts
1. Philosophy of Language, Peter Ludlow
2. Narratology and Literary Linguistics, Monika Fludernik
3. Computational Linguistics, Mark Steedman

Part II. Perspectives
4. Universals and Typology, J. P. Desclés and Zlatka Guentchéva
5. Morphology, Ashwini Deo
6. Syntax, Tim Stowell
7. Markedness, Edna Andrews
8. Adverbials, Monika Rathert
9. Pragmatics, Patrick Caudal
10. Discourse and Text, Janice Carruthers
11.Translation, Diana Santos
12. Diachrony and Grammaticalization, Steve Nicolle
13. Language Contact, Victor Friedman
14. Creole Languages, Donald Winford
15. Primary Language Acquisition, Laura Wagner
16. Second Language Acquisition, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig

Part III. Tense
17. Tense, John Hewson
18. Remoteness Distinctions, Robert Botne
19. Compositionality, Henk Verkuyl
20. The Surcomposé Past Tense, Louis De Saussure and Bertrand Sthioul
21. Bound Tenses, Galia Hatav
22. Embedded Tenses, Toshiyuki Ogihara and Yael Sharvit
23. Tenselessness, Jo-Wang Lin
24. Nominal Tense, Jacqueline Lecarme

Part IV. Aspect
25. Lexical Aspect, Hana Filip
26. Verbal Aspect, Henriette De Swart
27. Perfective and Imperfective Aspect, Jadranka Gvozdanoviæ
28. Progressive and Continuous Aspect, Christian Mair
29. Habitual and Generic Aspect, Greg Carlson
30. Verbal Pluractionality and Gnomic Imperfectivity, Pier Marco Bertinetto and Alessandro Lenci
31. Perfect Tense and Aspect, Marie-Eve Ritz
32. Resultative Constructions, John Beavers

Part V. Aspect and Diathesis
33. Voice, Mila Vulchanova
34. Case, Kylie Richardson

Part VI. Modality
35. Tense in Modal Utterances, Ilse Depraetere
36. Evidentiality and Mirativity, Ferdinand De Haan

Index