This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'.
This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Astrid De Wit holds a Ph.D in linguistics from the University of Antwerp (2014). She spent a year as a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles under a grant from the National Fund for Scientific Research. She has published widely on tense, aspect, and modality in a variety of languages, and her work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Linguistics, Studies in Language, and Journal of Germanic Linguistics.
Inhaltsangabe
General preface List of glosses 1: Introduction 2: An epistemic approach to the categories of tense and aspect 3: The present perfective paradox: The state of the art 4: The present perfective paradox in English 5: The present perfective paradox in French 6: The present perfective paradox in Sranan 7: The present perfective paradox in Slavic 8: Conclusion and wider relevance References Index
General preface List of glosses 1: Introduction 2: An epistemic approach to the categories of tense and aspect 3: The present perfective paradox: The state of the art 4: The present perfective paradox in English 5: The present perfective paradox in French 6: The present perfective paradox in Sranan 7: The present perfective paradox in Slavic 8: Conclusion and wider relevance References Index
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