Telicity and Durativity - A Study of Aspect in Dene Suline (Chipewyan) and German

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Luise Wilhelm Klappentext First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Telicity and durativity are notions which have become increasingly influential in both the semantic and the syntactic. This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics - telicity and durativity - to the grammatical system of natural language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents List of tables List of maps List of abbreviations Acknowledgments CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION PART I: DËNE SULINÉ CHAPTER TWO: Viewpoint aspect and its influence on situation type in Dëne CHAPTER THREE: TELICITY IS NOT GRAMMATIZED IN DËNE PART II: GERMAN CHAPTER FOUR: TELICITY IN GERMAN CHAPTER 5: Viewpoint Aspect and Durativity in German CHAPTER SIX: The grammatization of aspectual notions APPENDIX 1: Dëne verbs and tests APPENDIX 2: German verbs and tests APPENDIX 3: The Dëne Progressive End Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Wilhelm, Andrea Luise Wilhelm, Andrea Luise (University of Alberta Wilhelm, WILHELM ANDREA LUISE
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2007
• EAN: 9780415976459
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97645-9
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Studies in Linguistics (Routle; Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics; Studies in Linguistics (Routle
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies