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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:59:03
From: Eleanor Hennerley [ehennerley at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167: Verkuyl

 


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

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/compositional-nature-tense-mood-and-aspect-volume-167?format=HB 


Author: Henk J. Verkuyl

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108839280 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108839280 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108839280 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00


Abstract:

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 It also counters an outdated view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.
 



1. Introductory chapter; 2. How to deal with the long tradition of going
ternary?; 3. Binary tense structure; 4. Naive physics and aspectual
composition; 5. Levels of interaction between aspect and tense; 6. Binary
tense structure and adverbial modification; 7. How to deal binarily with...?;
8. Tense, mood and aspect.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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