Despite the crucial dependence of synchronic meaning on both historical and cognitive
context, we have traditionally used different tools for expressing synchronic and diachronic …

Over the last thirty years, the phenomenon of polarity sensitivity has proven both a
touchstone and a stumbling block for theories of grammat ical representation. Unfortunately …

Unidirectionality in grammatical change is a tantalizing idea that has both substantial
empirical plausibility and appealing theoretical simplicity, but it lacks tooth in its current …

Optative utterances express a wish, regret, hope or desire without an overt lexical item that
means wish, regret, hope or desire (cf. Quirk et al. 1972, 1985; Scholz 1991; Rosengren …

This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms
of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual …

Bernd Kortmann, en el título de un trabajo publicado en 1991, habla de la tríada tiempo-
aspecto-modo de acción. Efectivamente, en la mayor parte de los trabajos dedicados al …

The central aim of this study is to elucidate the nature of the semantics/pragmatics distinction
in both synchrony and diachrony. The author proposes a definition of semantics and …

When-Clauses and Temporal Structure Page 1 Page 2 WHEN-CLAUSES AND TEMPORAL
STRUCTURE Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and has been the focus of much …

b Berkeley Linguistics Society Page 1 b Berkeley Linguistics Society Alternatives for Aspectual
Particles: Semantics of still and already Author(s): Manfred Krifl<a Proceedings of the T …

OK. Everyone ready? I hope you have this second handout now. Dynamicity, Fictivity and
Scanning.(I'm going to cause an electronic hum or murmuring.) I'm going to elaborate what I …