Figure 4. Upper taxonomy for the ontology For linguistics we are concerned with the grammatical qualities of instances of LINGUISTICUNIT, or those qualities which determine how instances of LINGUISTICUNIT behave in the grammar of a language. Instances of MORPHOSYNTACTICFEATURE include: TENSE, ASPECT, MOOD, NUMBER, PERSON, PARTOFSPEECH, etc. A MORPHOSYNTACTICUNIT is said to stand in a HASGRAMINF...

Baggio presents the results of an event-related potential (ERP) study in which he examines the processing consequences of reading tense violations such as ∗Afgelopen zondag lakt Vincent de kozijnen van zijn landhuis (∗“Last Sunday Vincent paints the window-frames of his country house”). The violation is arguably caused by a mismatch between the semantics of the temporal adverb in the topic posi...

The paper investigates the future-in-the-past (FiP) as in Peter would (later) see the Fujiyama. FiP can convey an outlook on events that, as the speaker knows, took place later (“objective sense”). FiP can also convey a past utterance or thought of a protagonist. In this perspective-taking sense, FiP sentences share the uncertainty about the future of present tense will-sentences. Kaufmann’s (2...

This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of field Caribbean studies.

This papua plesel~ts a framework tot the modebfl~eoletic analysis of tense and aspect tonns in diseomse. It has been developed for Eurot~'a, the MT project of the Europeau Community, and has been applied to the nine Eurotra languages: English, German, Dutch, Danish, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. The paper censis~s of six parts. The first presents the problem of translating ten...