Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Time in languages, languages in time 1
4. Slavery and Britain in the 19th century 9
5. Diachronic change in the ordering of kinship binomials 39
6. Tracing processes in auxiliarization 67
7. Translating verbal tenses between tensed and tenseless languages 95
8. From language to language, from time to time 129
9. Just a moment 155
10. Then and now in English and French 181
11. Time adverbials in English and Norwegian news discourse 201
12. Minutes of action! A contrastive analysis of time expressions in English and Norwegian football match reports 229
13. Cross-disciplinary and cross-linguistic uses of tensed verb phrases in the methods sections of master’s theses 255
14. The expression of time in English and Czech children’s literature 283
15. Index 305