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Building a bridge between linguistic communities of the Old and the New World
Chiyo Nishida
Cinzia Russi
其他書名
Current research in tense, aspect, mood and modality
出版
Rodopi
, 2012
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax
ISBN
9401208344
9789401208345
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qa4hAAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The present volume is a collection of fourteen original papers selected from those presented at the first US installment of Chronos: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality, which took place at the University of Texas at Austin in October, 2008. The volume serves as an excellent forum for international scholars working on expressions of on tense, aspect, mood and modality. It contains papers dealing with a diverse variety of languages ranging from well studied languages like English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese, to less known ones like Basque, Chamorro, Iquito, Australian English and Singlish. The originality and relevance of the individual contributions is highlighted by the broadness of the theoretical approaches they employ and the novel empirical data they examine. All the studies go beyond exploring issues strictly related to tense, aspect, mood and modality; rather, they cut across all main linguistics subfields, such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition and language evolution, thus attesting to how research on tense, aspect, mood and modality is vital to the better understanding of human language in general. This diverse nature of the volume will certainly appeal to broad audience.