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In:Verb and Context: The impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories
Edited by Susana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 34] 2023
► pp. 231–262

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Epistemic futures and aspect

A cross-linguistic perspective

 | University of Ottawa
Published online: 4 January 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.34.10riv
Abstract
A comparative study of futures in Bulgarian and Slovenian, Turkish and Iranian Azeri, Hindi-Urdu, and Spanish. It argues that future morphology encodes a modal category FUT without inherent temporality. Temporal Orientation derives from Viewpoint Aspect categories embedded under FUT, which may differ in phonological content. Such a phonological contrast is significant for the syntax-morphology interface, but has no effect on the syntax-semantics interface. The semantics of future constructions are importantly constrained by formal structural factors such as locality and intervention. Viewpoint plays a primary role in the interpretation of futures since as a higher category in the clausal architecture it often neutralizes the effects on FUT of Lexical Aspect as a lower category in the structure.
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.South Slavic
    • 2.1Bulgarian
    • 2.2Slovenian
  • 3.Turkish and Azeri
  • 4.Hindi – Urdu
  • 5.Spanish
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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