Modality-Aspect Interfaces

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Implications and typological solutions

Werner Abraham Elisabeth Leiss(Editor)

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Modality-Aspect Interfaces
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction
1. The logical disposition about the aspect-modality link
2. The cross-linguistic extension
3. The typological aspect-modality inversion
4. Results of the empirical discussions in the present volume
4.1 General contingencies
4.2 Illocutive category and aspect: Interrelations and pragmatic inferences
4.3 Typologically solid confirmation: Synchronic references
4.4 Typologically solid confirmation: Diachronic references
4.5 Aspect-Modality Interface Generalization/AMIG III
4.6 Potential counter examples to the AMIGs I-V
5. Typological Aspect-Modality Interface Generalization/AMIG V
6. Final view
References
General
On the logic of generalizations about cross-linguistic aspect-modality links
1. The undisputed default relations between verb meaning and aspect assignment
2. Aspects and tense forms: The logical connections in Russian
3. Aspects and forms of modality: The general logical connections
References
The silent and aspect-driven patterns of deonticity and epistemicity
1. Diachronic typology of modals
1.1 Aspect languages are devoid of a class of modal verbs
1.2 The aspectual affinity of modals in synchrony and diachrony
1.3 The classification of modals in terms of binary opposition
1.4 Abraham's generalizations in the light of the terminological fine-tuning of modality
2. The rise of modals in the Germanic languages
2.1 Deonticity and perfectivity from a historical perspective
2.2 Epistemicity, imperfectivity, definiteness, and negation
2.3 Epistemicity, imperfectivity, and tense
3. Modals in the Slavic languages
4. In search of functional equivalents for the modals
4.1 The non-equivalence of modal adverbs with epistemic modals
4.2 On the functional equivalence of epistemic modals and evidentials: Conclusion
References
Primary sources
Secondary references
Propositional aspect and the development of modal inferences in English
1. Introduction
2. Definitions and terminology
2.1 Generic modality
2.2 Aspectual interactions with modality types
2.3 Semantic roles and modality
3. Generics and propositional aspect
3.1 Generic aspect
3.2 Propositional aspect
3.3 Evidentiality and epistemic meanings
4. Data under investigation
5. Discussion
5.1 Semantic explanations
5.2 Quantitative justification
6. Conclusions
References
Towards an understanding of the progressive form in English
1. The aim and the scope of the study
2. The terms
3. The starting question
4. The current explanations of the incompatibility
5. Categorial status of the progressive: Traditional approach
6. The discourse function of the progressive
6.1 The progressive and future time reference
6.2 The progressive aspect and present time reference
6.3 Summary of the pragmatic dependency of the progressive
7. An explanation of why the progressive cannot be used in the imperative mood
References
Epistemic modality and aspect contingencyin Armenian, Russian, and German
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical framework
2.1 Possibility and necessity in German
2.2 Expressing possibility in Russian
2.3 Modal auxiliaries of possibility in Armenian
2.4 Aspect in Russian and Armenian
2.5 Necessity in Armenian
2.6 Necessity in Russian
3. Epistemic functions of possibility
3.1 Root modality with wide scope
3.2 Is root modality with wide scope distinct from epistemic modality?
4. Necessity
4.1 Aspect in necessity expressions in Armenian
4.2 Aspect in necessity expressions in Russian
5. Conclusion
References
Primary sources
Secondary references
Slavic
Indefiniteness and imperfectivity as micro-grammatical contexts of epistemicity in German-Slovene translations
1. Introduction
2. The relevance of micro-grammatical contexts in the sense of the Slovene Model of Natural Syntax (SMNS)
3. Hypotheses related to the observed syntactic constructions
4. Epistemic and root modality and their markedness
5. Modal verbs in Slovene
6. Samples and methodology
7. Statistical data analysis
8. Collocation tendencies of epistemic and root structures with marked parameter variants
9. Findings and reflections
10. Conclusion and outlook
References
Primary sources
Secondary references
The connections between modality, aspectuality, and temporality in Modern Russian
1. Introduction
2. The system of aspectual-temporal forms in Modern Russian
3. The preterit forms of the imperfective and perfective aspects
3.1 Markedness relations
4. The future tense forms of the imperfective and perfective aspects
4.1 Markedness relations
4.2 Modal meanings
5. The present tense forms of the imperfective and perfective aspects
5.1 Standard contexts for the forms of the imperfective and the perfective present tense
5.2 Non-standard contexts for present tense forms of the perfective and imperfective aspects
6. Summary
References
Aspectual coercion in Bulgarian negative imperatives
1. Introduction
2. Aspect in negative imperatives - function and interpretation
3. Aspectual coercion in prohibitive negative imperatives
4. Coercive processes in preventive negative imperatives
5. Summary
6. Acknowledgements
References
Russian modals mozet ''can'' and dolzen ''must'' selecting the imperfective in negative contexts
1. Possibility
1.1 Internal possibility (~ ''ability'')
1.2 External possibility
1.3 Deontic possibility (~ ''permission'')
1.4 Epistemic possibility (~ ''lack of knowledge'')
2. Necessity
2.1 Internal necessity
2.2 External necessity
2.3 Deontic necessity (= ''moral obligation'')
2.4 Epistemic necessity (~ ''probability'')
3. Discussion of disputable examples from the national corpus of Russian
4. Conclusion
References
African
Tense, mood, and aspect in Gungbe (Kwa)
1. Introduction
2. The clause structure in Gungbe
2.1 Tense, mood, and aspect markers
3. The interpretation of modality
3.1 Root modality
3.2 Epistemic modality
3.3 Interaction with aspect
4. Conclusion
References
The modal system of the Igbo language
1. Introduction
1.1 A sketch of some relevant Igbo structures
1.2 The issue of modality
2. From compulsion to possibility
2.1 The main verbs -gá "go" and -gá "thread"
2.2 The auxiliary verb -gá "shall"
2.3 The modal uses of the auxiliary gá and the modal suffixes
3. From ability to possibility
3.1 -nwé íké "have strength/power
be able/can"
3.2 -p?` "be able/can"
3.3 _nwu "able"
4. From appropriateness to possibility
4.1 -kwésí "be appropriate/suitable"
4.2 -tósí "be appropriate/suitable"
5. Aspect-modality interaction
6. Summary and conclusion
References
Asian
The Aspect-Modality Link in the Japanese verbal complex and beyond
1. Introduction
2. The balance between aspect and modality (the Leiss question)
3. The nature of the deontic-perfective, epistemic-imperfective link
4. Aspect in Japanese - a brief orientation
5. Empirical study
6. Possible counterexamples
7. The crucial factor in deontic vs. epistemic interpretation
8. Conclusion
References
The Aspect-Modality Link in Japanese
1. Introduction
2. Evaluating sentence (Handan-bun): An expression of the unmarked epistemic modality
3. Expressing the speaker's intended modality through the particle?
4. Predicate types according to sentence types: The epistemicity-imperfectivity affinity
5. Evaluating sentence with a verbal predicate: Emergence of the deontic meaning?
6. Discussion
6.1 A reversal of grammaticalization: From subjectivity(origo-related) to objectivity (subject-related)?
6.2 Emerging epistemicity/deonticity: The discrepancy between form and referent
7. A further perspective: Another realization of the modality in Japanese and A-M Link
8. Conclusion
References
Amerindian
The Lakota aspect/modality markers -kinica and tkhá
1. Introduction
2. The Lakota data
2.1 -kinica "proximative, intentional"
2.2 tkhá ''past tense with various aspectual and/or modal meaning components
3. Discussion
3.1 -kinica ''proximative, intentional'': From deontic modality to perfective aspect
3.2 tkhá ''past + aspectual and/or modal meaning component'': No evidence for diachronic aspect-modality links
4. Conclusions
References
Creole
A note on modality and aspect in Saramaccan
1. Preliminaries
2. TAM in Saramaccan
3. The modal system in Saramaccan
4. Aspect and modality
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Diachronic
Aspects of a reconstruction of form and function of modal verbs in Germanic and other languages
1. Introductory remarks
2. The reanalysis of preterit presents
3. The preterit presents in Old Germanic and their further development
3.1 [CAN]
3.2 [MAY]
4. Modality and aspectuality - and conclusion
References
Primary sources
Secondary references
The autopsy of a modal - insights from the historical development of German
1. Recent proposals - a synopsis
2. The emergence of epistemic modals
2.1 Modal verbs across centuries
2.2 Epistemic modals in Schmid's Neuwe Welt (1567)
3. Root modals modifying situations
4. Implementing the contrast
4.1 A pragmatic solution - Maienborn (2003)
4.2 Saving Kratzer (1995)
4.3 Event structure and aspectual specification
5. Root modals determining temporal reference
6. The transparency of epistemic and quotative modals
7. New insights about Behaghel's Puzzle
8. A short sketch of grammaticalisation
References
Index of authors
Index of subjects
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