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Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited
- New Answers to Old Questions
Engelsk Hardback
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- New Answers to Old Questions
Engelsk Hardback

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Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with an intensely growing body of crosslinguistic studies, have revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories. Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited argues that it's time to revisit our conventional assumptions, and reconsider our foundational questions: What exactly is a linguistic category? What kinds of categories do labels such as "subjunctive," "imperative," "future," and "modality" truly refer to? In short, how categorical are categories? Current literature assumes a straightforward link between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages have cultivated a sense of predictability in patterns over time. As the editors and contributors of Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited prove, however, this predictability and stability vanish in the study of lesser-known patterns and languages. The ten provocative essays gathered here present fascinating cutting-edge research that demonstrates that the traditional grammatical distinctions are ultimately fluid and perhaps even illusory. Developing groundbreaking and highly original theories, contributors in this volume seek out to unravel more general, fundamental principles of TAM that can help us better understand the nature of linguistic representations.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9780226363523
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022636352X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
12 jan 2017
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
163mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
12 jan 2017
Forfatter(e):
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