Aspectuality and Temporality Descriptive and theoretical issues Edited by Zlatka Guentchéva Aspectuality and Temporality Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS) issn 0165-7763 This series has been established as a companion series to the periodical Studies in Language. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs Founding Editor Werner Abraham University of Vienna / University of Munich Editors Werner Abraham Elly van Gelderen University of Vienna / University of Munich Arizona State University Editorial Board Bernard Comrie Christian Lehmann University of California, Santa Barbara University of Erfurt William Croft Marianne Mithun University of New Mexico University of California, Santa Barbara Östen Dahl Heiko Narrog University of Stockholm Tohuku University Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Johanna L. Wood University of Cologne University of Aarhus Ekkehard König Debra Ziegeler Free University of Berlin University of Paris III Volume 172 Aspectuality and Temporality. Descriptive and theoretical issues Edited by Zlatka Guentchéva Aspectuality and Temporality Descriptive and theoretical issues Edited by Zlatka Guentchéva LACITO-CNRS – Université Paris 3 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. doi 10.1075/slcs.172 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress: lccn 2015040036 (print) / 2015042895 (e-book) isbn 978 90 272 5937 0 (Hb) isbn 978 90 272 6761 0 (e-book) © 2016 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Company · https://benjamins.com Table of contents List of contributors vii Introduction 1 Zlatka Guentchéva part i. Theoretical issues A cognitive and conceptual approach to tense and aspect markers 27 Jean-Pierre Desclés part ii. Grammatical encoding of aspectual and temporal distinctions Tense, aspect and mood in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia): Encoding events, processes and states 63 Isabelle Bril On the tense-aspect system of standard Thai 109 René Gsell Dravidian conceptual basis for the Badaga “tenses” 131 Christiane Pilot-Raichoor Tense and aspect in the verbal system of Wolof 171 Stéphane Robert Tense and aspect in Langi 231 Margaret Dunham Aspect in Sikuani 265 Francesc Queixalós part iii. Grammatical aspect and Aktionsarten Aspect-tense relations in East Greenlandic 297 Philippe Mennecier On interaction between external and internal markers in expressing aspect in Arabic dialect varieties 325 Samia Naïm vi Aspectuality and Temporaliry Descriptive and theoretical issues part iv. Indo-European Aorist and Hamito-Semitic Aorist The aorist and the perfect in Albanian 357 Jean-Louis Duchet & Remzi Përnaska The aorist in Modern Armenian: Core values and contextual meanings 375 Anaïd Donabédian The verbal form V-ā in Hindi/Urdu: An aorist with “aoristic” meanings 413 Annie Montaut The aorist in Berber 447 Lionel Galand The Aorist in Zenaga Berber and the Imperfective in two Arabic dialects: A comparative viewpoint 465 Catherine Taine-Cheikh part v. Perfects and resultatives Modern Greek -tos (-τος) and -menos (-μενος): Two truly aspectual suffixes 505 Eleni Valma Resultative Interpretation of Predicates in Korean 525 Injoo Choi-Jonin On two types of result: Resultatives revisited 563 Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova part vi. The Future and future reference Future and prospective in the Mongolic languages 599 Robert I. Binnick The future tenses in the Tibetic languages: Diachronic and dialectal perspectives 625 Nicolas Tournadre No escape from the future: Temporal frames and prediction in Yucatec Maya 643 Valentina Vapnarsky The Bulgarian future in light of the temporal frames of reference 679 Zlatka Guentchéva part vii. Grammatical change Aspect as the source of diathesis in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic and beyond with remarks on transitivity, accusativity, ergativity and case 705 Pablo Kirtchuk Table of contents vii Language Index 727 Author Index 729 Subject Index 735 List of contributors Robert BINNICK Anaïd DONABEDIAN University of Toronto INALCO & SEDYL - CNRS 1265 Military Trail 7 rue Guy Moquet, Bat. D Toronto, ON 94801 Villejuif Cedex Canada M1C 1A4 INALCO [email protected] 65 rue des Grands-Moulins 75013 Paris [email protected] Isabelle BRIL LACITO-CNRS Jean-Louis DUCHET Centre André-Georges Haudricourt EA 3816 FORELL 7, rue Guy Môquet, Université de Poitiers 94800 Villejuif, France 95, av. Recteur Pineau [email protected] 86022 Poitiers [email protected] Injoo CHOI-JONIN Margaret DUNHAM University of Toulouse-Le Mirail & LACITO-CNRS LACITO-CNRS Centre André-Georges Haudricourt 5 Allée Antonio Machado 7, rue Guy Môquet, 31100 Toulouse 94800 Villejuif, France [email protected] [email protected] Jean-Pierre DESCLES Lionel GALAND Université Paris-Sorbonne & LALIC 12 r André Theuriet Maison de la Recherche 92340 BOURG LA REINE 28, rue Serpente [email protected] 75006 Paris [email protected] †René GSELL Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3 Mila DIMITROVA-VULCHANOVA 13 rue Santeuil Department of Language and Literature 75231 Paris Cedex 05 The Norwegian University of Science and Technology Zlatka GUENTCHEVA Edvard Bulls veg 1 LACITO-CNRS Dragvoll , Building 2 Centre André-Georges Haudricourt NO-7491 Trondheim 7, rue Guy Môquet, Norway 94800 Villejuif, France [email protected] [email protected]
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