Aspectuality and Temporality: Descriptive and theoretical issues

754 Pages·2016·5.21 MB·English

by  Zlatka Guentchéva

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Aspectuality
and Temporality
Descriptive and theoretical issues
Edited by
Zlatka Guentchéva
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Aspectuality and Temporality
Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS)
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Editors
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University of Vienna / University of Munich Arizona State University
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University of California, Santa Barbara University of Erfurt
William Croft Marianne Mithun
University of New Mexico University of California, Santa Barbara
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University of Stockholm Tohuku University
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University of Cologne University of Aarhus
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Free University of Berlin University of Paris III
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Aspectuality and Temporality. Descriptive and theoretical issues
Edited by Zlatka Guentchéva
Aspectuality and Temporality
Descriptive and theoretical issues
Edited by
Zlatka Guentchéva
LACITO-CNRS – Université Paris 3
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Table of contents
List of contributors vii
Introduction 1
Zlatka Guentchéva
part i. Theoretical issues
A cognitive and conceptual approach to tense and aspect markers 27
Jean-Pierre Desclés
part ii. Grammatical encoding of aspectual and temporal distinctions
Tense, aspect and mood in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia): Encoding events,
processes and states 63
Isabelle Bril
On the tense-aspect system of standard Thai 109
René Gsell
Dravidian conceptual basis for the Badaga “tenses” 131
Christiane Pilot-Raichoor
Tense and aspect in the verbal system of Wolof 171
Stéphane Robert
Tense and aspect in Langi 231
Margaret Dunham
Aspect in Sikuani 265
Francesc Queixalós
part iii. Grammatical aspect and Aktionsarten
Aspect-tense relations in East Greenlandic 297
Philippe Mennecier
On interaction between external and internal markers in expressing
aspect in Arabic dialect varieties 325
Samia Naïm
vi Aspectuality and Temporaliry Descriptive and theoretical issues
part iv. Indo-European Aorist and Hamito-Semitic Aorist
The aorist and the perfect in Albanian 357
Jean-Louis Duchet & Remzi Përnaska
The aorist in Modern Armenian: Core values and contextual meanings 375
Anaïd Donabédian
The verbal form V-ā in Hindi/Urdu: An aorist with “aoristic” meanings 413
Annie Montaut
The aorist in Berber 447
Lionel Galand
The Aorist in Zenaga Berber and the Imperfective in two Arabic dialects:
A comparative viewpoint 465
Catherine Taine-Cheikh
part v. Perfects and resultatives
Modern Greek -tos (-τος) and -menos (-μενος): Two truly aspectual suffixes 505
Eleni Valma
Resultative Interpretation of Predicates in Korean 525
Injoo Choi-Jonin
On two types of result: Resultatives revisited 563
Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova
part vi. The Future and future reference
Future and prospective in the Mongolic languages 599
Robert I. Binnick
The future tenses in the Tibetic languages: Diachronic and dialectal perspectives 625
Nicolas Tournadre
No escape from the future: Temporal frames and prediction in Yucatec Maya 643
Valentina Vapnarsky
The Bulgarian future in light of the temporal frames of reference 679
Zlatka Guentchéva
part vii. Grammatical change
Aspect as the source of diathesis in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
and beyond with remarks on transitivity, accusativity, ergativity and case 705
Pablo Kirtchuk
Table of contents vii
Language Index 727
Author Index 729
Subject Index 735

List of contributors
Robert BINNICK Anaïd DONABEDIAN
University of Toronto INALCO & SEDYL - CNRS
1265 Military Trail 7 rue Guy Moquet, Bat. D
Toronto, ON 94801 Villejuif Cedex
Canada M1C 1A4 INALCO
[email protected] 65 rue des Grands-Moulins 75013 Paris
[email protected]
Isabelle BRIL
LACITO-CNRS Jean-Louis DUCHET
Centre André-Georges Haudricourt EA 3816 FORELL
7, rue Guy Môquet, Université de Poitiers
94800 Villejuif, France 95, av. Recteur Pineau
[email protected] 86022 Poitiers
[email protected]
Injoo CHOI-JONIN
Margaret DUNHAM
University of Toulouse-Le Mirail &
LACITO-CNRS
LACITO-CNRS
Centre André-Georges Haudricourt
5 Allée Antonio Machado
7, rue Guy Môquet,
31100 Toulouse
94800 Villejuif, France
[email protected]
[email protected]
Jean-Pierre DESCLES
Lionel GALAND
Université Paris-Sorbonne & LALIC
12 r André Theuriet
Maison de la Recherche
92340 BOURG LA REINE
28, rue Serpente
[email protected]
75006 Paris
[email protected]
†René GSELL
Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3
Mila DIMITROVA-VULCHANOVA
13 rue Santeuil
Department of Language and Literature
75231 Paris Cedex 05
The Norwegian University of Science
and Technology Zlatka GUENTCHEVA
Edvard Bulls veg 1 LACITO-CNRS
Dragvoll , Building 2 Centre André-Georges Haudricourt
NO-7491 Trondheim 7, rue Guy Môquet,
Norway 94800 Villejuif, France
[email protected] [email protected]