Bringing together fifty years' worth of cross-linguistic research, this pioneering monograph
explores the complex interaction between tense, mood and aspect. It looks at the long way …

Before turning to the grammatical construction at the heart of the present study in chapter 3
this chapter aims to provide the reader with the necessary grammatical background to …

This thesis provides an empirically driven and theoretically informed examination of
temporal, aspectual and modal (TAM) expression in Anindilyakwa, an underdescribed and …

This work is chiefly concerned with the semantics of linguistic categories including tense,
modality and negation and the relationships between them. In particular, how do they …

This paper contributes to a more general understanding of the semantic diversity in temporal
connectives cross-linguistically by investigating in some detail a clitic found in the Australian …

The clitic= lku in Warlpiri and Warlmanpa (Ngumpin-Yapa, Pama-Nyungan, Australia) has
been previously analyzed as a 'change of state'marker indicating some proposition is false …

This paper proposes that a core semantic property of temporal locating adverbs is the ability
(or the lack thereof) to introduce a new time discourse referent. The core data comes from …

In this paper we propose a semantic type-driven account of verb-formation patterns in
Panyjima. By offering an explicit theory for the construal of semantically simplex event …

Kala Lagaw Ya is the language of the Western Torres Strait islands, with two main dialects
centred around Saibai Island and Mabuiag Island. It exhibits complex tense/aspect marking …

This paper investigates the meaning of a specific intonation contour called linear
lengthening intonation (LLI), which is found in the northern Australian language Iwaidja …