A Semantic and Pragmatic Model of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect

List of contents

Acknowledgments, Abbreviations and conventions Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION Chapter 2. LEXICAL ASPECT Chapter 3. GRAMMATICAL ASPECT Chapter 4. TENSE Chapter 5. ENGLISH TENSE AND ASPECT Chapter 6. KOINE GREEK TENSE AND ASPECT Chapter 7. CONCLUSIONS

About the author

Mari B. Olsen

Summary

Studies two related phenomena in human language: the ability of verbs and other lexical items to describe how a situation (event or state) develops or holds in time (lexical aspect) and the view some verbal auxiliaries and affixes present of the development or result of a situation at a given time

Product details

• Authors: Mari B. Olsen, Olsen Mari B.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1997
• EAN: 9780815328490
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2849-0
• No. of pages: 340
• Weight: 521 g
• Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology