Contributions

  • Pianesi, Fabio. - Contributor

Publication

1997 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

79,750 words, Guess

Page Count

319 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • ISBN-139780195091939
  • Goodreads3776547', '2620457
  • LibraryThing4096963
  • Library of Congress Control Number96029078
  • Better World Books9780195091939

Classifications

  • DDC415
  • LCCP281 .G54 1997
  • LCCP281.G54 1997

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Tense and aspect: from semantics to morphosyntaxOxford University Press1997-01-01

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