The Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167

by Henk J Verkuyl and Henk J. Verkuyl

Book Overview

Bringing together fifty years' worth of cross-linguistic research, this pioneering monograph explores the complex interaction between tense, mood and aspect. It looks at the long way of combining elementary semantic units at the bottom of phrase structure up to and including the top of a sentence. Rejecting ternary tense as blocking compositionality, it introduces three levels obtained by binary tense oppositions. It also counters an outdated view...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108970575
• ISBN13: 9781108970570
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"