Dahl Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe

Nachdruck 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-019709-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 859 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 10 g

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Dahl, Östen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;11
3;The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a typological perspective;17
4;Viewpoint operators in European languages;41
5;Aspect vs. Actionality: Why they should be kept apart;203
6;The type-referring function of the Imperfective;241
7;On the areal distribution of tense-aspect categories in Europe;279
8;The grammar of future time reference in European languages;323
9;Future marking in conditional and temporal clauses in Greek;343
10;Verbs of becoming as future copulas;365
11;The perfect – aspectual, temporal and evidential;379
12;Current relevance and event reference;399
13;The Simple and Compound Past in Romance languages;417
14;On the perfect in North Slavic;455
15;Macedonian – a language with three perfects?;493
16;Past tenses in Permic languages;509
17;The progressive in Europe;531
18;The progressive in Romance, as compared with English;573
19;Progressive markers in Germanic languages;619
20;Progressive aspect in Baltic Finnic;669
21;The absentive;707
22;Some typological features of the viewpoint and tense system in spoken North-Western Karaim;737
23;Aspect in Maltese;767
24;Backmatter;803