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The Present Perfective Paradox across Languages (Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought)
Astrid de Wit
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Description for The Present Perfective Paradox across Languages (Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought)
Hardcover. This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'. Series: Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; CFGA; CFK; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 243 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. It begins from the assumption that there is a restriction on the use of the present tense to report present-time dynamic/perfective situations, while with stative/imperfective situations there are no such alignment problems. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'. The proposed analysis is founded on the assumption that there is an epistemic alignment constraint preventing the identification and reporting of events ... Read more
This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. It begins from the assumption that there is a restriction on the use of the present tense to report present-time dynamic/perfective situations, while with stative/imperfective situations there are no such alignment problems. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'. The proposed analysis is founded on the assumption that there is an epistemic alignment constraint preventing the identification and reporting of events ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought
Condition
New
Weight
489g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198759539
SKU
V9780198759539
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About Astrid de Wit
Astrid De Wit holds a Ph.D in linguistics from the University of Antwerp (2014). She spent a year as a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles under a grant from the National Fund for Scientific Research. She has published widely on tense, aspect, ... Read more
Reviews for The Present Perfective Paradox across Languages (Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought)
This typological focus demonstrates the far-reaching consequences of the book. It isrecommended for anyone interested in temporality and crosslinguistic semantics.
Daniel Altshuler, Hampshire College and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Language
De Wit has managed to something remarkable,which is to construct a comparative analysis of an underexamined issue of tense and aspect that has typological promiseA great merit ... Read more
Daniel Altshuler, Hampshire College and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Language
De Wit has managed to something remarkable,which is to construct a comparative analysis of an underexamined issue of tense and aspect that has typological promiseA great merit ... Read more