The ‘Perfect’ as a Universal and as a Language-Particular Category

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Preface vii
4. Table of contents ix
5. I. Tense and Aspect in Discourse
6. Aspect between Discourse and Grammar 3
7. The Discourse Motivation for the Perfect Aspect 19
8. The Function of Inuktitut Verb Modes in Narratives Texts 45
9. Aspect in Conversational Indonesian 65
10. II. The Creation of Tense and Aspect
11. Universals of Aspect and Parts of Speech 91
12. Tense-Aspect Modality 115
13. III. Tense and Aspect as Cognitive Categories
14. Aspect, Transitivity, and Viewpoint 167
15. Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Use of the Turkish Evidential 185
16. Figure and Ground 201
17. IV. Tense and Aspect as Semantic and Grammatical Categories
18. The ‘Perfect’ as a Universal and as a Language-Particular Category 227
19. Remarks on English Aspect 265
20. Invariance and the Syntax of Russian Aspect 305
21. V. Afterword
22. On Cross-Linguistic Categories and Related Problems 335
23. Index to References 347