Viewpoint operators in European languages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. General Papers
4. The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a typological perspective 3
5. Viewpoint operators in European languages 27
6. Aspect vs. Actionality: Why they should be kept apart 189
7. The type-referring function of the Imperfective 227
8. On the areal distribution of tense-aspect categories in Europe 265
9. Future Time Reference
10. The grammar of future time reference in European languages 309
11. Future marking in conditional and temporal clauses in Greek 329
12. Verbs of becoming as future copulas 351
13. The Perfect
14. The perfect – aspectual, temporal and evidential 365
15. Current relevance and event reference 385
16. The Simple and Compound Past in Romance languages 403
17. On the perfect in North Slavic 441
18. Macedonian – a language with three perfects? 479
19. Past tenses in Permic languages 495
20. The Progressive
21. The progressive in Europe 517
22. The progressive in Romance, as compared with English 559
23. Progressive markers in Germanic languages 605
24. Progressive aspect in Baltic Finnic 655
25. The absentive 693
26. Case Studies
27. Some typological features of the viewpoint and tense system in spoken North-Western Karaim 723
28. Aspect in Maltese 753
29. Backmatter 789