Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Synchronic and diachronic evidence for parallels between noun phrases and sentences 13
6. The development of tense, mood, and aspect in the creole languages, and the typology of affix order 43
7. Aspectual oppositions from Proto-Indo-European to Latin 61
8. On the development of actionality, tense, and viewpoint from Early to Late Latin 73
9. Continuity and change: The history of two Greek tenses 105
10. Actionality and aspect in Hittite 131
11. Imperfectivity and complete events 149
12. Predicative verbs of transition in Portuguese and Spanish: A cognitive approach to aspect, aktionsart, and tense 167
13. The Old Nordic Middle Voice in the pre-literary period: Questions of grammaticalisation and cliticisation 185
14. The relevance of tense and aspect in Semitic Languages: The case of Hebrew and Arabic 221
15. The verb phrase in the Kerebe language 249
16. Comparative TAM morphology in Niger-Congo: The case of persistive, and some other markers in Bantu 283
17. Indexicals as sources of case markers in Australian languages 299
18. Differential object marking in Sahidic Coptic 323
19. Index 345