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Book SynopsisIf there’s a domain in linguistics which complexity calls for ever further research, it’s clearly that of tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, often referred to as ‘TAME’. The reason for which these domains of investigation have been connected so tightly as to deserve a common label is that their actual intertwining is so dense that one can hardly measure their effects purely individually, without regard to the other notions of the spectrum. On the other hand, despite their imbrications, tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality remain – needless to say – separate theoretical entities. The papers gathered in this volume cover a range of issues and a variety of methods that help delineate, each in its way, new perspectives on this broad domain.
Table of ContentsList of Figures, Diagrams and Tables 1 Introduction Laura Baranzini and Louis de Saussure Part 1 Meanings and Interpretations of Tenses 2 The Semantics of the Simple Future in Romance: Core Meaning and Parametric Variation Victoria Escandell-Vidal 3 Tense Choice and Interpretation in First-Person Stories: A Contrastive Study of English and Japanese Naoaki Wada 4 Time Updating Uses of the French Imparfait Extending Across Genres Jakob Egetenmeyer Part 2 Aspectual Issues 5 The Futurate Reading of the Spanish Present Progressive (estar +-ndo) Alicia Cipria 6 Non-culminating Accomplishments: Subject, Speaker and Syntactic Structure Jacqueline Guéron and Svetlana Vogeleer 7 Preterit and Perfect in Romance: New Insights from Occitan Myriam Bras and Jean Sibille Part 3 Modality and Evidentiality in Contrast 8 Double Modals in Scots: A Speaker’s Choice Hypothesis Cameron Morin 9 The Contextualising Effects of the Modal Particle vel in Norwegian Interrogatives Thorstein Fretheim 10 Belief and Performativity Alda Mari 11 Post-modal Concessive Meanings: A Contrastive Corpus Study of French and German Modal Verbs Corinne Rossari and Elena Smirnova 12 The Semantic Profile of the Past Evidential in Udmurt in Contemporary Texts Rebeka Kubitsch Index
