Tense across languages [the ten papers ... are updated versions of talks presented at the Workshop "Tense across languages", that we organized ... during the annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) at Bamberg Univ. in Fe

This book addresses recent developments in the study of tense from a cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic point of view. Leading international scholars explore challenging ideas about tense at the interfaces between semantics and syntax as well as syntax and morphology. The book is divided into three main subsections: 1) Tense in tenseless languages; 2) Tense, mood, and modality, and 3) Descriptive approaches to some tense phenonema. Although time is a universal dimension of the human experience, some languages encode reference to time without any grammatical tense morphology of the verb. Some of these exceptional “tenseless” languages are investigated in this volume: Kalaallisut, Paraguayan Guaraní and Movima. Modal verbs are polyfunctional in the sense that they express both tense and modality. In this volume, an untypical modal is analyzed, a modal analysis of imperatives is argued for, and sentential mood, which is closely related to modality, is analyzed. It is always interesting to look at the expression of tense in understudied languages, which is done here for Scottish Gaelic, Austronesian Rukai and German dialects. The volume can be used for graduate and undergraduate level teaching "This book addresses recent developments in the study of tense from a cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic point of view. Leading international scholars explore challenging ideas about tense at the interfaces between semantics and syntax as well as syntax and morphology. The book is divided into three main subsections: 1) Tense in tenseless languages; 2) Tense, mood, and modality, and 3) Descriptive approaches to some tense phenonema. Although time is a universal dimension of the human experience, some languages encode reference to time without any grammatical tense morphology of the verb. Some of these exceptional "tenseless" languages are investigated in this volume: Kalaallisut, Paraguayan Guaraní and Movima. Modal verbs are polyfunctional in the sense that they express both tense and modality. In this volume, an untypical modal is analyzed, a modal analysis of imperatives is argued for, and sentential mood, which is closely related to modality, is analyzed. It is always interesting to look at the expression of tense in understudied languages, which is done here for Scottish Gaelic, Austronesian Rukai and German dialects. The volume can be used for graduate and undergraduate level teaching."--Publisher's website

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Tense across Languages – an Introduction A. TENSE, MOOD, AND MODALITY Tense and Volitionality Imperatives and Tense (Non)veridicality and Mood Choice: Subjunctive, Polarity, and Time B. UNDERSTUDIED TENSE PHENOMENA AND TYPOLOGICAL VARIATION Use and Temporal Interpretation of the Rukai Future Tense Tense in the Scottish Gaelic Verbal System New Perspectives on Double Perfect Constructions in German C. TENSE IN TENSELESS LANGUAGES AND SEQUENCE-OF-TENSE PHENOMENA Time and Modality without Tenses or Modals Tense Marking on Dependent Nominals in Movima The Paraguayan Guaraní Future Marker –ta: Formal Semantics and Cross Linguistic Comparison Zero-Tense vs. Indexical Construals of the Present in French L1 Index Review text: "All in all, despite the issues raised above, scholars and students interested in the semantics and typology of tense should find the volume of great interest. The original work compiled here offers an exciting addition to previous semantic and typological treatments of tense (and modality) cross linguistically. Both empirically and theoretically, "Tense across languages" opens up many avenues for further research. Indeed, much remains to be charted and the present volume is a valuable contribution in the right direction."Celeste Rodríguez Louro in: Linguist List 23.2360 This book addresses recent developments in the study of tense from a cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic point of view. Leading international scholars explore challenging ideas about tense at the interfaces between semantics and syntax as well as syntax and morphology. The book is divided into three main subsections: 1) Tense in tenseless languages; 2) Tense, mood, and modality, and 3) Descriptive approaches to some tense phenonema. The volume can be used for graduate and undergraduate level teaching, though those who will maximally benefit will be researchers at graduate level The book series Linguistische Arbeiten (LA) publishes high-quality work in linguistics that addresses current issues in synchrony and diachrony, theoretically or empirically oriented.