Taming the Tame Systems

This volume on TAME systems (Tense-aspect-mood-evidentiality) stems from the 10th Chronos conference that took place in Aston University (Birmingham, UK) on 18th-20th April 2011. The papers collated here are therefore a chosen selection from a stringent peer-review process. They also witness to the width and breadth of the interests pursued within the Chronos community. Besides the traditional Western European languages, this volume explores languages from Eastern Europe (Greek, Romanian, Russian) and much further afield such as Brazilian Portuguese, Korean or Mandarin Chinese. Little known languages from the Amazonian forest (Amondawa, Baure) or the Andes (Aymara) also come under scrutiny.

Emmanuelle Labeau is a Senior Lecturer in French Language and Linguistics. She has published extensively on the aspect-temporal system of French as a first and second language. She has edited half a dozen volumes dedicated to the crosslinguistic study of TAME. Her current research focuses on the past historic, the future and movement periphrases.Qiaochao Zhang teaches Mandarin at Aston University while writing up her PhD dissertation on the acquisition of the Mandarin aspectual system by l2 learners.