Expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus's L'Etranger and Its Translations / L'Etranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalite et d'evidentialite (TAME)

This book deals with the linguistic treatment of tense-aspect-modal-evidential (TAME) expressions in translations of the French novel L'Etranger by Albert Camus into sixteen languages. It is strongly empirical in spirit, and uses the method of contrastive linguistics and multilingual comparison through the use of parallel corpora. It has five main parts: the first two offer insights into perfect a...