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Tense, Aspect and Action - Empirical and Theoretical Contributions to Language Typology

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Die Artikel dieser Sammlung beschäftigen sich mit den linguistischen Themenbereichen Tempus, Aspekt und Aktionsart, sowohl anhand verschiedener indogermanischer als auch anderer Sprachen. Englisch, Italienisch, Russisch, Finnisch, Ungarisch, Chinesisch, Ainu, Kammu, Tokelauan. Aleut, Lulubo und auch die schwedische Zeichensprache werden behandelt. Das Werk vertritt einen sprachtypologischen Ansatz und enthält neuartige deskriptive Ansätze, die in dieser Form bisher nicht veröffentlicht wurden. Alle Autoren sind Spezialisten in den von ihnen beschriebenen Sprachen, die ihre Beiträge auf fundiertem Datenmaterial aufbauen.

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Summary of the contents:
Carl Bache: Introduction. Simon C. Dik: Verbal semantics in Functional Grammar. Carl Bache: Verbal categories, form - meaning relationships and the perfect. Peter Harder: Verbal time reference in English, structure and functions. Per Durst-Andersen: Russian aspect as different statement models. Pier M. Bertinetto: Temporal reference, aspect and actionality: Their neutralization and interactions, mostly exemplified in Italian. Carl Vikner: Change in homogeneity in verbal and nominal reference. Lene Schoesler: Did 'Actionsart' ever 'compensate' verbal aspect in Old and Middle French? Ferenc Kiefer: Some peculiarities of the aspectual system in Hungarian. Orvokki Heinämäki: Aspect as boundedness in Finnish. Torben Andersen: From aspect to tense in Lulubo: Morphosyntactic and semantic restructuring in a Central Sudanic language. Jan-Olof Svantesson: Tense, mood and aspect in Kammu. Soeren Egerood: Aspect in Chinese. Kirsten Refsing: Tense, aspect and actionality in the Ainu language. Knut Bergsland: Aleut tenses and aspects. Arnfinn M. Vonen: The expression of temporal and aspectual relations in Tokelau narratives. Brita Bergmann u. Östen Dahl: Ideophones in Sign Languages? The place of reduplication in the tense-aspect system of Swedish Sign Language

Product details

Assisted by Carl Bache (Editor), Han Basbøll (Editor), Hans Basbøll (Editor), Carl-Erik Lindberg (Editor)
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.1994
 
EAN 9783110127133
ISBN 978-3-11-012713-3
No. of pages 428
Dimensions 155 mm x 33 mm x 230 mm
Weight 764 g
Illustrations w. fig.
Series Empirical Approaches to Language Typology
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
ISSN
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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