Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality (Human Cognitive Processing, Volume 29 / Band 29).

Filipovic, Luna.

ISBN 10: 9027223831 / ISBN 13: 9789027223838

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2011

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319 Seiten. Noch eingeschweißt, guter Zustand. K00-5 ISBN 9789027223838 Wichtiger Hinweis: Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung zur Zeit KEIN Versand in EU-Länder. Due to EPR, there is currently no delivery to EU-countries. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 800.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality (Human Cognitive Processing, Volume 29 / Band 29).
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027223831
• ISBN 13: 9789027223838
• Binding: 24,5*16,5 cm. OPappband.
• Weight: 800 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is understood as indicating “a degree of compatibility between the modal world and the factual world” (Declerck). All contributions, moreover, tackle these problems from a more or less cognitive point of view, with some of them insisting on the need to provide a unifying explanation for all usage types, temporal and non-temporal, and all of them accepting the premise that the semantics of TA categories essentially refers to subjective, rather than objective, concerns. The volume also represents one of the first attempts to gather accounts of TA marking (in various languages) that are explicitly set within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Ultimately, this volume aims to contribute to establishing an awareness that modal meaning elements are directly relevant to the analysis of the grammar of time.