Temporal reference, aspect and actionality: Their neutralization and interactions, mostly exemplified in Italian

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: An overview 1
5. Verbal semantics in Functional Grammar 23
6. Verbal categories, form-meaning relationships and the English perfect 43
7. Verbal time reference in English: Structure and functions 61
8. Russian aspect as different statement models 81
9. Temporal reference, aspect and actionality: Their neutralization and interactions, mostly exemplified in Italian 113
10. Change in homogeneity in verbal and nominal reference 139
11. Did Aktionsart ever “compensate” verbal aspect in Old and Middle French? 165
12. Some peculiarities of the aspectual system in Hungarian 185
13. Aspect as boundedness in Finnish 207
14. From aspect to tense in Lulubo: Morphosyntactic and semantic restructuring in a Central Sudanic language 235
15. Tense, mood and aspect in Kammu 265
16. Aspect in Chinese 279
17. Tense, aspect and actionality in the Ainu language 311
18. Aleut tenses and aspects 323
19. The expression of temporal and aspectual relations in Tokelau narratives 371
20. Ideophones in Sign Language? The place of reduplication in the tense-aspect system of Swedish Sign Language 397
21. Index of Languages 423
22. Index of Names 425