It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics. A large number of syntactic and semantic phenomena are concerned by the temporal-aspectual-modal level of representation: information about time, aspect and modality is part of virtually all sentences; inflexion is quite widely considered as the core of syntactic projections. Because of this very crucial situation and role in the sentence structure, temporal-aspectual and modal information concerns virtually any part of the sentence and this information has scope over the whole characterization of the eventuality denoted by the sentence.
The classic text for students, knowledge of which are in the range from intermediate to advanced level. A clear presentation of the material, accompanied by contributing to his learning illustrations makes the book as special product. The third edition has a greater emphasis on the communicative aspect of the English language in the U.S. REDUCED VERSION by Pumukl
In this monumental work of complex and probing proportions, the renowned feminist and psychoanalyst Gemma Corradi Fiumara surveys the vast literature on metaphor. She suggests that metaphorical language communicates via the creation images, pictures and finds in it an irreducible aspect to interpersonal communication and our use of language itself.
The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework. They compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 8, 2007)
Nomi Erteschik-Shir is
Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Foreign
Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Her
publications include The Dynamics of Focus Structure (1997) and The
Syntax of Aspect (2005) co-edited with Tova Rapoport. She is currently
working on a book with Tova Rapoport on the lexicon-syntax interface,
The Atoms of Meaning.