Thursday, June 4, 2009

Tense and Aspect: From Semantics to Morphosyntax (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)

Tense and Aspect: From Semantics to Morphosyntax (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)

The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, and suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework. They compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones.



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