In:Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality
Edited by Adeline Patard and Frank Brisard
[Human Cognitive Processing 29] 2011
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 28 July 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.29.toc
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Table of contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect, and epistemic modality
Part I. Theoretical foundations
The definition of modality
The English present: Temporal coincidence vs. epistemic immediacy
The organization of the German clausal grounding system
Grounding in terms of anchoring relations: Epistemic associations of ‘present continuous’ marking in Turkish
Part II. Descriptive application: Cognitive Grammar
Some remarks on the role of the reference point in the construal configuration of “more” and “less” grounding predications
New current relevance in Croatian: Epistemic immediacy and the aorist
Aspect as a scanning device in natural language processing: The case of Arabic
Part III. Descriptive application: Other cognitive approaches
Imperfective aspect and epistemic modality
Communicating about the past through modality in English and Thai
The epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imparfait: When temporality conveys modality
Name Index
Subject Index
