Tense across Languages (2011)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• Tense across Languages – an Introduction
A. Tense, mood, and modality
• Tense and Volitionality
• Imperatives and Tense
• (Non)veridicality and Mood Choice: Subjunctive, Polarity, and Time
B. Understudied Tense Phenomena and Typological Variation
• Use and Temporal Interpretation of the Rukai Future Tense
• Tense in the Scottish Gaelic Verbal System
• New Perspectives on Double Perfect Constructions in German
C. Tense in Tenseless Languages and Sequence-of-tense Phenomena
• Time and Modality without Tenses or Modals
• Tense Marking on Dependent Nominals in Movima
• The Paraguayan Guaraní Future Marker –ta: Formal Semantics and Cross Linguistic Comparison
• Zero-Tense vs. Indexical Construals of the Present in French L1
• Index