Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality

Name: Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality
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Adeline Patard Frank Brisard(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 28. Juli 2011

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List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect, and epistemic modality
Frank Brisard and Adeline Patard

Part I. Theoretical foundations

The definition of modality
Renaat Declerck

The English present: Temporal coincidence vs. epistemic immediacy
Ronald W. Langacker

The organization of the German clausal grounding system
Elena Smirnova

Grounding in terms of anchoring relations: Epistemic associations of 'present continuous' marking in Turkish
Ceyhan Temurcu

Part II. Descriptive application: Cognitive grammar

Some remarks on the role of the reference point in the construal configuration of "more" and "less" grounding predications
Elena Smirnova and Tanja Mortelmans

New current relevance in Croatian: Epistemic immediacy and the aorist
Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic and Renata Geld

Aspect as a scanning device in natural language processing: The case of Arabic
Lazhar Zanned

Part III. Descriptive application: Other cognitive approaches

Imperfective aspect and epistemic modality
Ronny Boogaart and Radoslava Trnavac

Communicating about the past through modality in English and Thai
Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Jiranthara Srioutai

The epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imparfait: When temporality conveys modality
Adeline Patard

This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is understood as indicating "a degree of compatibility between the modal world and the factual world" (Declerck). All contributions, moreover, tackle these problems from a more or less cognitive point of view, with some of them insisting on the need to provide a unifying explanation for all usage types, temporal and non-temporal, and all of them accepting the premise that the semantics of TA categories essentially refers to subjective, rather than objective, concerns. The volume also represents one of the first attempts to gather accounts of TA marking (in various languages) that are explicitly set within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Ultimately, this volume aims to contribute to establishing an awareness that modal meaning elements are directly relevant to the analysis of the grammar of time.

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Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Background
2. Overview of the contributions
3. Conclusion
References
Part I. Theoretical foundations
The definition of modality
1. Introduction
2. Terminological preliminaries
3. The definition of modality
4. Kinds of modalizers
5. Epistemic modality
6. The epistemic scale of specified factuality values
7. Root (nonepistemic) modality
8. World-evoking lexical verbs
9. Overview of modal worlds
10. Conclusion
References
The English present
1. The issue
2. Prerequisites
2.1 Conceptual semantics
2.2 Symbolic grammar
3. Temporal coincidence
3.1 Present perfectives
3.2 Non-present uses
4. Epistemic immediacy
4.1 General considerations
4.2 An epistemic model
4.3 Non-modal clauses
4.4 Modals
5. Conclusion
References
The organization of the German clausal grounding system
1. Introduction
2. Deictic characteristics of grounding predications
3. Two basic kinds of construal configurations of the ground
4. German grounding predications
4.1 Temporal grounding
4.2 Modal grounding
5. Conclusion
References
Grounding in terms of anchoring relations
1. Introduction
2. Temporal and epistemic categories within the framework of anchoring relations
2.1 Anchoring relations in three semantic domains
2.2 More on epistemic anchoring categories
2.3 Combinations of temporal, epistemic and volitional categories in the sentence meaning
3. Epistemic values of the Turkish 'present continuous' marker -Iyor#
3.1 The data
3.2 -Iyor# and epistemic contingency
4. Conclusion
References
Part II. Descriptive application
Some remarks on the role of the reference point in the construal configuration of "more" and "less" grounding predications
1. Introduction
2. Grounding predications: Conceptual structure
3. A more gradual view on grounding and its consequences
4. The German preterit subjunctive as a grounding predication
5. The status of werden + infinitive as a grounding predication
6. The status of würde + infinitive as a grounding predication
7. Conclusion
References
New current relevance in Croatian
1. Introduction
2. Usages of the Croatian aorist
2.1 Narrative aorist
2.2 The aorist of recent actions
2.3 The aorist of proverbs
2.4 The aorist of future actions
2.5 The predominance of the first person singular
3. Current usage tendencies of the aorist
3.1 Current usage tendencies: The corpus
3.2 Current usage tendencies: Speakers' judgments
4. Discussion and cognitive analysis
4.1 The aorist and epistemic immediacy
4.2 The aorist and the moment of speech
4.3 Epistemic immediacy revisited: Two virtual planes
5. Conclusion
References
Aspect as a scanning device in natural language processing
1. Introduction
2. The aspectual system in Arabic: An overview
3. Aspect in imagery
3.1 Aspect as an image-building tool
3.2 Aspect as a scanning device
4. Aspectual scanning: The case of Arabic
4.1 Scanning modes
4.2 Scope of awareness in aspectual representation
4.3 Aspect as a zooming device
5. Conclusion
References
Part III. Descriptive application
Imperfective aspect and epistemic modality
1. Introduction
2. Imperfective aspect and subjectivity
2.1 Modal verbs
2.2 Counterfactual
2.3 Perspectivized discourse
3. Imperfective aspect and anaphoric temporal reference
3.1 The semantics of tense and aspect
3.2 The subjective potential of imperfective aspect
4. Aspect and modality in Russian
4.1 Counterexamples to the imperfective-epistemic link
4.2 Discussion: Imperfective and anaphoric in Russian
5. To conclude
References
Communicating about the past through modality in English and Thai
1. The rationale and objectives
2. Time as modality
3. Merger representations
4. The modality of the past: Evidence from English
5. Possible uses of d1ay1II
6. A unified account of d1ay1II
7. Concluding remarks
References
The epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imparfait
1. Introduction
2. A temporal definition of the SP and the IP
2.1 Past morphology means past
2.2 Tense and aspect
2.3 Definition
3. Remarks on the uses of tenses
3.1 'Temporal' versus 'modal' uses
3.2 'Epistemic' versus 'illocutory' uses
4. Dialogism and verbal tenses
4.1 The notion of dialogism
4.2 The dialogic uses of tenses
5. The conditional and the optative uses of the SP and the IP
5.1 Preliminary observations
5.2 A dialogic account
5. Conclusion
References
Name index
Subject index

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