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The Oxford handbook of tense and aspect

This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.
Print Book, English, ©2012
Oxford University Press, Oxford, ©2012
xxxvii, 1089 p. : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780195381979, 0195381971
1025952858
Philosophy of language
Narratology and literary linguistics
Computational linguistics
Universals and typology
Morphology
Syntax
Markedness
Adverbials
Pragmatics
Discource and text
Translation
Diachrony and grammaticalization
language contract
Creole language
Primary language acquisition
Second language acquisition
Tense
Remotness distinctions
Compositionality
The surcompos'e past tense
Bound tenses
Embedded tenses
Tenselessness
Nominal tense
Lexical aspect
Verbal aspect
Perfective and imperfective aspect
Progressive and continuous aspect
Habitual and generic aspect
Habituality, pluractionality, and inperfectivity
Perfect tense and aspect
Resultative constructions
Voice
Case
Time in sentences with model verbs
Evidentiality and mirativity
Índice