This paper develops a unified analysis for the meaning of imperfective aspect that covers
progressives, habituals, and counterfactuals, aiming at an understanding of two …

This dissertation explores the expression of counterfactuality crosslinguistically both from a
morpho-syntactic/semantic perspective-focusing on the interaction between tense, aspect …

Let us return to the question of whether the two readings differ in event complex-ity. This
would mean that the verbs under discussion productively have two event construals. Two …

Abstract Iatridou (2000, 2010) has established a cross-linguistic generalization that
imperfective marking–more precisely, habitual marking–is one of the key grammatical …

The central thesis of this work is that a clause consisting only of left-peripheral functional
structure can be fully finite. Generative models of clause structure typically assume that a …

This paper examines predication data from two unrelated languages: Chol, a Mayan
language spoken in southern Mexico, and Tagalog, an Austronesian language of the …

This chapter discusses the meaning of mirativity and its relationship with tense and aspect
morphology in Spanish. The central claim is that tense contributes its standard meaning to …

In this paper, I provide an analysis of Spanish stress with the following three
characteristics:(a) both verbal and non-verbal stress are accounted for in a single, unified …

This paper presents the fieldwork data on the interaction of actionality, aspect, and tense in
counterfactual conditional clauses of the Kuban dialect of Kabardian, a polysynthetic …

The existence of auxiliary verbs, especially auxiliary BE, presents very general questions for
the structural of clausal inflection. Broadly speaking, two types of explanation have been …