Morphology and semantics: aspect and modality

• Autores: Eva-Maria Remberger
• Localización: Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance / coord. por Susann Fischer, Christoph Gabriel, 2016, ISBN 9783110311785, págs. 213-240
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter investigates the morphosyntactic and interpretive interactions between modality, mood, aspect and tense in Romance. I present an overview on common de fi nitions of aspect, tense, mood and modality, applying these notions to the tense-aspect system and the exponents of mood and modality in Romance. To illustrate the interaction of grammatical levels (lexicon – morphosyntax – semantics – discourse) at the interfaces, a series of case studies from Romance are discussed: First, aspectual interactions regarding the stage-level/individual-level distinction; second, mood and modal meaning at the interface; and, third, the interactions of tense, aspect, and modality, and the shifted interpretations they produce.