Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited: New Answers to Old Questions - Couverture rigide

 
9780226363523: Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited: New Answers to Old Questions
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ISBN 10 : 022636352X ISBN 13 : 9780226363523
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2017

Synopsis

Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories. Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited argues that it's time to revisit our conventional assumptions and reconsider our foundational questions: What exactly is a linguistic category? What kinds of categories do labels such as "subjunctive," "imperative," "future," and "modality" truly refer to? In short, how categorical are categories?

Current literature assumes a straightforward link between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages have cultivated a sense of predictability in patterns over time. As the editors and contributors of Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited prove, however, this predictability and stability vanish in the study of lesser-known patterns and languages. The ten provocative essays gathered here present fascinating cutting-edge research demonstrating that the traditional grammatical distinctions are ultimately fluid--and perhaps even illusory. Developing groundbreaking and highly original theories, the contributors in this volume seek to unravel more general, fundamental principles of TAM that can help us better understand the nature of linguistic representations.

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À propos des auteurs

Joanna Blaszczak is professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Anastasia Giannakidou is the Frank J. McLoraine professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Polarity Sensitivity as Nonveridical Dependency and coeditor, inter alia, of Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022636352X
ISBN 13 
9780226363523
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
400
Éditeur
Blaszczak Joanna, Giannakidou Anastasia, Klimek-Jankowska Dorota, Migdalski Krzysztof
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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