Adeline Patard

List of John Benjamins publications in which Adeline Patard is involved.

Title

Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality

Edited by Adeline Patard and Frank Brisard

This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 29] 2011. ix, 319 pp.

Articles (4) | Order by:

De Wit, Astrid and Adeline Patard 2013 Modality, aspect and the progressive: The semantics of the present progressive in French in comparison with English Languages in Contrast 13:1, pp. 113–132 | Article

This paper proffers a corpus-based study of the semantics of the French present progressive in comparison with its English equivalent. We describe the temporal and modal uses of ‘be + -ing’ and investigate to what extent they overlap with the uses of être + en train de. The observation that the use… read more

De Wit, Astrid, Adeline Patard and Frank Brisard 2013 A contrastive analysis of the present progressive in French and English Studies in Language 37:4, pp. 846–879 | Article

In this study, we address the semantics of the present progressive constructions in French and English by looking into their present-day uses and their diachronic evolution. Corpus data show that both constructions are frequently used in contemporary English and French to stress the atypical nature… read more

Brisard, Frank and Adeline Patard 2011 Introduction: Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect, and epistemic modality Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality, Patard, Adeline and Frank Brisard (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article

Patard, Adeline 2011 The epistemic uses of the English simple past and the French imparfait: When temporality conveys modality Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality, Patard, Adeline and Frank Brisard (eds.), pp. 279–310 | Article

This chapter explores the connection between past tense and modality in English and French. After arguing for a temporal definition of past tenses, I reinterpret the classical opposition between temporal uses and modal uses in terms of the speakers’s referential or subjective intentionality. I… read more