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This volume puts the European tense-aspect systems in a consistent
typological and diachronic perspective. The book advances our understanding
of the dynamics of tense and aspect systems, how they develop over time,
and how this is reflected in the rich patterns of synchronic variation and
their areal distribution.
Contents
General preface
Preface
General Papers
Östen Dahl
The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a typological perspective
Lars Johanson
Viewpoint operators in European languages
Pier Marco Bertinetto and Denis Delfitto
Aspect vs. Actionality: Why should they be kept apart
Eva Hedin
The type-referring function of the imperfective
Rolf Thieroff
On the areal distribution of tense-aspect categories in Europe
Future Time Reference
Östen Dahl
The grammar of future time reference in European languages
Eva Hedin
Future marking in conditional and temporal clauses in Greek
Östen Dahl
Verbs of becoming as future copulas
The Perfect
Jouko Lindstedt
The perfect - aspectual, temporal and evidential
Östen Dahl and Eva Hedin
Current relevance and event reference
Mario Squartini and Pier Marco Bertinetto
The simple and compound past in Romance languages
Hannu Tommola
On the perfect in North Slavic
Nina Graves
Macedonian - a language with three perfects?
Marja Leinonen and Maria Vilkuna
Past tenses in Permic languages
The Progressive
Pier Marco Bertinetto, Karen H. Ebert and Casper de Groot
The progressive in Europe
Pier Marco Bertinetto
The progressive in Romance, as compared with English
Karen H. Ebert
Progressive markers in Germanic languages
Hannu Tommola
Progressive aspect in Baltic Finnic
Casper de Groot
The absentive
Case Studies
Iva Agnes Csats
Some typological features of the viewpoint and tense system in spoken
North-Western Karaim
Karen H. Ebert
Aspect in Maltese
Appendices
1. The future time reference questionnaire
2. The perfect questionnaire
3. Questionnaire on the progressive aspec
4. List of abbreviations used in interlinear glosses
5. List of working papers
Indices
Subject index
Language index
Author index
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