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Tense and Aspect: From Semantics to Morphosyntax

Tense and Aspect: From Semantics to Morphosyntax

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Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 0195091930
ISBN13: 9780195091939
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 11 1997
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book examines the interactions between the morphosyntax and the semantic interpretation of tense and aspect in the Germanic and Romance languages. These languages diverge not only in their variety of tense and aspectual forms, but also in the distribution and interpretation of given forms. Adopting Noam Chomsky's minimalist framework, Alessandra Giorgi and Fabio Pianesi attempt to provide theoretical explanations for the observed patterns of form and meaning which link the morphosyntactic properties of languages in both universal and language-particular constraints on interpretation.

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