In this paper I analyse the Prospective readings of sentences like El Ton cantava ahir, però li van ajornar la funció ('Ton was to sing yesterday, but they postponed the performance'). I follow Delfitto's (1998) proposal for generics and try to extend it to prospectives. I will point out that in prospective readings the event asserted is not the one expressed by the verb, but a complex event created from the material in the VP plus an operator binding the event variable of the verb: a modal operator with a lexical meaning paraphrasable as was to + Infinitive. This idea allows me to make a distinction between the temporal modifiers that are associated with the Event Time of the event of the verb and those that affect the temporal reference o...
Future tenses are cross-linguistically problematic for various reasons: 1) they usually get a large ...
International audienceThis article investigates variable future-time expression among native speaker...
to appear in Actas de las Jornadas de Linguistica 2005, Universidad de CadizThis paper explores the ...
In this paper I analyse the Prospective readings of sentences like El Ton cantava ahir, però li van ...
We argue that the Italina future is an evidential marker even when combined with eventive predicates...
In this survey article, I discuss the variety of ways in which language allows us to talk about the ...
This short paper argues that predictive expressions (will, gonna) are modals. In section 1 I provide...
Whether future morphemes in languages are temporal or modal operators is a central question in the s...
The progressive and generic/habitual uses of imperfectives have long been claimed to be modal, with ...
[Extract] In many languages of the world, the status of 'future' is different from that of present a...
This short paper argues that predictive expressions (will, gonna) are modals. In section 1, I provid...
The present paper deals with the future tense in modern German and its dubious efficiency to express...
International audienceFuture tensed sentences display a range of modal interpretations across langua...
This paper examines the expression of futurity in Spanish, specifically the periphrastic future (PF)...
Ce travail de thèse se donne pour objectif de mettre en évidence le fonctionnement des différents ef...
Future tenses are cross-linguistically problematic for various reasons: 1) they usually get a large ...
International audienceThis article investigates variable future-time expression among native speaker...
to appear in Actas de las Jornadas de Linguistica 2005, Universidad de CadizThis paper explores the ...
In this paper I analyse the Prospective readings of sentences like El Ton cantava ahir, però li van ...
We argue that the Italina future is an evidential marker even when combined with eventive predicates...
In this survey article, I discuss the variety of ways in which language allows us to talk about the ...
This short paper argues that predictive expressions (will, gonna) are modals. In section 1 I provide...
Whether future morphemes in languages are temporal or modal operators is a central question in the s...
The progressive and generic/habitual uses of imperfectives have long been claimed to be modal, with ...
[Extract] In many languages of the world, the status of 'future' is different from that of present a...
This short paper argues that predictive expressions (will, gonna) are modals. In section 1, I provid...
The present paper deals with the future tense in modern German and its dubious efficiency to express...
International audienceFuture tensed sentences display a range of modal interpretations across langua...
This paper examines the expression of futurity in Spanish, specifically the periphrastic future (PF)...
Ce travail de thèse se donne pour objectif de mettre en évidence le fonctionnement des différents ef...
Future tenses are cross-linguistically problematic for various reasons: 1) they usually get a large ...
International audienceThis article investigates variable future-time expression among native speaker...
to appear in Actas de las Jornadas de Linguistica 2005, Universidad de CadizThis paper explores the ...