Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited
New Answers to Old Questions
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PART I. Tense, Aspect, and Modals: Their Categorial Status and Cross- linguistic Variation
Chapter 1. TAM Coding and Temporal Interpretation in West African Languages
Anne Mucha and Malte Zimmermann
Chapter 2. Modals: Meaning Categories?
Valentine Hacquard
Chapter 3. Epistemic Future and Epistemic MUST: Nonveridicality, Evidence, and Partial Knowledge
Anastasia Giannakidou and Alda Mari
PART II. Irrealis Moods: Subjunctive and Imperative
Chapter 4. On Finiteness and the Left Periphery: Focusing on Subjunctive
Manuela Ambar
Chapter 5. Evaluative Subjunctive and Nonveridicality
Anastasia Giannakidou
Chapter 6. The Essence of a Category: Lessons from the Subjunctive
Martina Wiltschko
Chapter 7. Imperatives as (Non-)modals
Mark Jary and Mikhail Kissine
Chapter 8. Approaching the Morphosyntax and Semantics of Mood
Ilse Zimmermann
PART III. Aspectual Recursion and Aspectual Coercion
Chapter 9. Aspectual Composition and Recursion
Henriëtte de Swart
Chapter 10. Can Semantic Theories Be Tested Experimentally? The Case of Aspectual Coercion
Oliver Bott
Chapter 11. Aspectual Coercion versus Blocking: Experimental Evidence from an ERP Study of Polish Converbs
Joanna Błaszczak and Dorota Klimek- Jankowska
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
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