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Author Ziegeler, Debra.

Title Interfaces with English aspect : diachronic and empirical studies / Debra Ziegeler.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2006]
©2006
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 82
Studies in language companion series ; v. 82. 0165-7763
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-316) and indexes.
Contents Imperfectivity and the English progressive -- Perfectivity in English : the case of do -- Proximative aspect -- Aspectual collocations and nascent modality -- Generic aspect in the emergence of future will.
Summary The field of verbal aspect has been a focus for the derivation of a multiplicity of theoretical approaches ranging over decades of linguistic research. From the point of view of recent studies, though, there has been relatively little emphasis on the nature of the interaction of aspect with other categories, and the ways in which our knowledge of aspect acts as a primary semantic contributor to the creation of other basic verbal parameters such as tense and modality. This book aims to cross some of the categorial borders, using a collection of studies on the interfaces of English aspect with o.
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Subject English language -- Grammar.
English language -- Grammar.
English language -- Verb.
English language -- Verb.
English language -- Modality.
English language -- Modality.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ziegeler, Debra. Interfaces with English aspect. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2006 9027230927 (DLC) 2006043018 (OCoLC)70823264
ISBN 9789027293107 (electronic book)
9027293104 (electronic book)
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9781282155220
9027230927
9789027230928

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