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Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited: New Answers to Old Questions
Joanna Blaszczak (Ed.)
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Blaszczak, Joanna; Giannakidou, Anastasia; Klimek-Jankowska, Dorota; Migdalski, Krzysztof. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 33. Weight in Grams: 740.
Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with an intensely growing body of crosslinguistic studies, have revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories. Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited argues that it's time to revisit our conventional assumptions, and reconsider our foundational questions: What exactly is a linguistic category? What kinds of categories do labels such as "subjunctive," "imperative," "future," and "modality" truly refer to? In short, how categorical are categories? Current literature assumes a straightforward link between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages ... Read more
Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with an intensely growing body of crosslinguistic studies, have revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these categories. Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited argues that it's time to revisit our conventional assumptions, and reconsider our foundational questions: What exactly is a linguistic category? What kinds of categories do labels such as "subjunctive," "imperative," "future," and "modality" truly refer to? In short, how categorical are categories? Current literature assumes a straightforward link between grammatical category and semantic function, and descriptions of well-studied languages ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226363523
SKU
V9780226363523
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About Joanna Blaszczak (Ed.)
Joanna Blaszczak is professor at the Institute of English Studies at University of Wroclaw, Poland. Anastasia Giannakidou is professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago. Dorota Klimek-Jankowska is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. Krzysztof Migdalski is assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wroclaw, Poland. ... Read more
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