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Cross-linguistic semantics of tense, aspect and modality
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Cross-linguistic semantics of tense, aspect and modality

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Papers from the workshop took place in Nijmega, the Netherlands in November 2006.

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The semantics of tense, aspect and modality in the languages of the world / Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop & Andrej Malchukov
Incompatible categories: resolving the 'present perfective paradox' / Andrej Malchukov
The perfective/imperfective distinction: coercion or aspectual operators? / Corien Bary
Lexical and compositional factors in the aspectual system of Adyghe / Peter M. Arkadiev
Event structure of non-culminating accomplishments / Sergei Tatevosov & Mikhail Ivanov
The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la 'come' and Owà 'go' / Nicoletta Romeo
Irrealis in Yurakaré and other languages: on the cross-linguistic consistency of an elusive category / Rik van Gijn & Sonja Gipper
On the selection of mood in complement clauses / Rui Marques
'Out of control' marking as circumstantial modality in St'át'imcets / Henry Davis, Lisa Matthewson & Hotze Rullmann
Modal geometry: remarks on the structure of a modal map / Kees de Schepper & Joost Zwarts
Acquisitive modals / Johan van der Auwera, Petar Kehayov & Alice Vittrant
Conflicting constraints on the interpretation of modal auxiliaries / Ad Foolen & Helen de Hoop
Modality and context dependence / Fabrice Nauze
Verbal semantic shifts under negation, intensionality, and imperfectivity: Russian genitive objects / Barbara H. Partee & Vladimir Borschev
The Estonian partitive evidential: Some notes on the semantic parallels between aspect and evidential categories / Anne Tamm
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