The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect

Tense and aspect are means by which language refers to time--how an event takes place in the past, present, or future. They play a key role in understanding the grammar and structure of all languages, and interest in them reaches across linguistics. The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that currently form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas. The volume contains 36 chapters, divided into 6 sections, written by internationally known experts in theoretical linguistics.

Robert I. Binnick is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Toronto. His main research areas are Mongolian and Altaic languages in general, and the semantics of tense and verbal aspect. He is author of Modern Mongolian (1976) and Time and the Verb (1991).

Preface List of symbols and abbreviations About the authors Introduction Robert I. Binnick Part I. Contexts 1. Philosophy of Language, Peter Ludlow 2. Narratology and Literary Linguistics, Monika Fludernik 3. Computational Linguistics, Mark Steedman Part II. Perspectives 4. Universals and Typology, J. P. Desclés and Zlatka Guentchéva 5. Morphology, Ashwini Deo 6. Syntax, Tim Stowell 7. Markedness, Edna Andrews 8. Adverbials, Monika Rathert 9. Pragmatics, Patrick Caudal 10. Discourse and Text, Janice Carruthers 11.Translation, Diana Santos 12. Diachrony and Grammaticalization, Steve Nicolle 13. Language Contact, Victor Friedman 14. Creole Languages, Donald Winford 15. Primary Language Acquisition, Laura Wagner 16. Second Language Acquisition, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig Part III. Tense 17. Tense, John Hewson 18. Remoteness Distinctions, Robert Botne 19. Compositionality, Henk Verkuyl 20. The Surcomposé Past Tense, Louis De Saussure and Bertrand Sthioul 21. Bound Tenses, Galia Hatav 22. Embedded Tenses, Toshiyuki Ogihara and Yael Sharvit 23. Tenselessness, Jo-Wang Lin 24. Nominal Tense, Jacqueline Lecarme Part IV. Aspect 25. Lexical Aspect, Hana Filip 26. Verbal Aspect, Henriette De Swart 27. Perfective and Imperfective Aspect, Jadranka Gvozdanoviæ 28. Progressive and Continuous Aspect, Christian Mair 29. Habitual and Generic Aspect, Greg Carlson 30. Verbal Pluractionality and Gnomic Imperfectivity, Pier Marco Bertinetto and Alessandro Lenci 31. Perfect Tense and Aspect, Marie-Eve Ritz 32. Resultative Constructions, John Beavers Part V. Aspect and Diathesis 33. Voice, Mila Vulchanova 34. Case, Kylie Richardson Part VI. Modality 35. Tense in Modal Utterances, Ilse Depraetere 36. Evidentiality and Mirativity, Ferdinand De Haan Index