tailieunhanh - The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 86

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 86. In the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is a major new reference that presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. | 820 RONNY BOOGAART AND THEO JANSSEN temporal ordering of such cases it will be clear that in addition to or perhaps even instead of aspect a considerable amount of world knowledge and pragmatic reasoning must be 4. Directions for Future Research A number of tense aspect domains deserve serious attention and further investigation. . Comparative Analysis of Tense and Aspect Given the general cognitive linguistic tool for the analysis of tense and aspect developed in the literature there is at present a need for comparative analyses of tense and aspect systems in the languages of the world using these analytic tools Dickey s 2000 comparative analysis of aspect in the Slavic languages can be mentioned as an exemplary study in this respect. So far the primary focus in the cognitive linguistic literature has been on the general concepts underlying tense and aspect rather than on the formal manifestation of these categories and their use in particular languages with the possible exception of English . However it is well known that tense and aspect categories show a great deal of variation across languages see Dahl 1985 2000 Thieroff and Ballweg 1994 Thieroff 1995 Hewson and Bubenik 1997 Stassen 1997 . Thus in order to test the validity of the proposals and if necessary to refine them more languages should be examined including those languages that are claimed to lack the category of tense altogether see Bohnemeyer 1998 on Yucatec Maya . A promising perspective for describing and explaining such cross-linguistic differences in the domain of tense and aspect is offered by the framework of grammaticalization Bybee Perkins and Pagliuca 1994 . But here as well detailed diachronic studies of language-specific developments are for the most part still lacking. . Interaction Tense Aspect and Modality It should have become clear from the preceding sections that the categories of tense and aspect interact in interesting ways. Within the domain of aspectuality a .