Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Bibliography XVI
4. Introduction 1
5. Concepts of time 4
6. A time-relational analysis of Russian aspect 34
7. An analysis of the German Perfekt 68
8. Aspect and assertion in mandarin Chinese 103
9. On times and arguments 148
10. On the “Imperfective paradox” and related problems 183
11. Local deixis in route directions 194
12. Some notorious pitfalls in the analysis of spatial expressions 216
13. Time and again 230
14. On the scope of negation1 253
15. About the German particles schon and noch 283
16. The information structure of French 324
17. Quaestio and L-perspectivation 354
18. Finiteness, universal grammar and the language faculty 385
19. The basic variety (or: couldn’t natural languages be much simpler?) 403
20. Why case marking? 466
21. The grammar of varieties 491
22. Index 507