Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 351 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 600 g
The Gothic Verb as a Model for a Unified Theory of Aspect, Actional Types, and Verbal Velocity. (Part I: Theory; Part II: Application)
Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 351 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 600 g
Reihe: Studies in Language Companion Series
ISBN: 978-90-272-3003-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
The continuing debate over the existence or non-existence of formal verbal aspect in Gothic triggered the author to write this monograph whose aim is to provide a completely new foundation for a theory of aspect and related features. Gothic, with its limited corpus, representing a translation of the Greek, and showing interesting parallels with Slavic verbal constructions, serves and an illustrative model for the theory. In Part I the author argues that a unified theory of aspect, actional types, and verbal velocity presented there possesses an internal logic and is not at variance with observed facts in various Indo-European languages. In Part II an analysis is presented of the Gothic verb system which seeks to explain the much-disputed function of ga- and to solve the problem of Gothic aspect and actional types which does no violence either to the Gothic text or the Greek original.
