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TENSE AND ASPECT IN INFORMAL WELSH - BOB MORRIS...

The book provides a descriptive account of the semantics of three grammatical areas in informal
Welsh: inflections of finite verbs  perfect aspect  and progressive aspect. The analyses
distinguish context-independent primary meanings from other meanings which are due to
implications and contextual effects.The inflections convey factuality  tense  (morphological)
aspect  and habituality  but the inflections and their meanings are differently distributed
over different sorts of verbs. The analysis of factuality outlines different sorts of
counterfactual situations  and discusses whether counterfactual meaning can best be accounted
for in terms of true statements in imagined possible worlds or in terms of false statements in
the actual world. The analysis of tense argues that it conveys evaluation time and not
situation time  which can be different to evaluation time  and that tense is not a collection
of simple labels like 'past' or 'present' but is a combination of two times  a deictic
reference time and a relative evaluation time  which organize the tenses as a system.
Morphological aspect is discussed in terms of perfective and imperfective meanings. Habituality
is a property of situations which can be described by all inflections but the study shows that
bod 'be' alone has specialized forms to convey habituality. The discussion of the perfect
aspect considers the appropriateness of anterior time  retrospective view  and current
relevance to account for its meaning. The author argues that the progressive aspect conveys a
durative view and the non-progressive a non-durative view  and shows that the progressive can
describe situations which are described by the non-progressive in other languages. The study
also considers whether other expressions can be aspect markers. The book shows that the primary
meanings of the three grammatical areas are subject to various constraints.

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