Atle Grønn

List of John Benjamins publications in which Atle Grønn is involved.

Articles

Grønn, Atle 2013 Aspect and tense in counterfactual main clauses: Fake or real? Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs, Josephson, Folke and Ingmar Söhrman (eds.), pp. 133–158 | Article

The role of aspect and tense in counterfactual main clauses is discussed on the basis of both well-established and “new” data from Russian and French. In the first part of the paper, I show that the predominant use of the imperfective in French counterfactuals is arguably “fake”, i.e. without… read more

Grønn, Atle 2008 Imperfectivity and complete events Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses, Josephson, Folke and Ingmar Söhrman (eds.), pp. 149–165 | Article

Imperfectivity is cross-linguistically associated with the subinterval property and a modal component induced by the famous ‘imperfective paradox’. These properties arguably hold for both the progressive and habitual-iterative readings. However, both in Romance and Slavic, the imperfective may also… read more