This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will
sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work on future …

We offer an analysis of the Greek and Italian future morphemes as epistemic modal
operators. The main empirical motivation comes from the fact that future morphemes have …

This paper is devoted to the interaction between temporal configuration and the
interpretation of modal verbs in French and Spanish, two languages that exhibit wider and …

This thesis contributes to the research on tense and eventualities accross languages. It
presents the first systematic investigation and detailed theoretical analysis of the temporal …

There are a number of phenomena where an apparent animacy requirement exceptionally
admits some inanimate causers as felicitous. In this paper I argue that these should be …

Subjunctive conditionals in English and other languages are marked by Past morphology
that does not seem to receive its usual temporal interpretation. Much recent work has …

This paper discusses the information structural properties of so-called premise (also factual)
conditionals, conditional sentences whose antecedent repeats previously evoked content …

Building on previous findings on tense construals and on constraints on modaltemporal
configurations, this paper presents a semantic analysis of subjunctive tenses in Spanish …

This chapter concentrates on the interaction between modal verbs and tense-aspect
operators. It explores the question of the link between types of modality and temporal …

Different languages can express similar meanings using morpho-syntactically distinct
expressions. This paper examines the relative viability of syntactic and semantic analyses of …