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Tense, Aspect and Action : Empirical and Theoretical Contributions to Language Typology /

Tense, Aspect and Action : Empirical and Theoretical Contributions to Language Typology / ed. by Carl Bache, Carl-Erik Lindberg, Hans Basbøll. - Reprint 2011 - 1 online resource (428 p.) : Num. figs. - Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 12 0933-761X ; .

I-IV -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: An overview -- Verbal semantics in Functional Grammar -- Verbal categories, form-meaning relationships and the English perfect -- Verbal time reference in English: Structure and functions -- Russian aspect as different statement models -- Temporal reference, aspect and actionality: Their neutralization and interactions, mostly exemplified in Italian -- Change in homogeneity in verbal and nominal reference -- Did Aktionsart ever “compensate” verbal aspect in Old and Middle French? -- Some peculiarities of the aspectual system in Hungarian -- Aspect as boundedness in Finnish -- From aspect to tense in Lulubo: Morphosyntactic and semantic restructuring in a Central Sudanic language -- Tense, mood and aspect in Kammu -- Aspect in Chinese -- Tense, aspect and actionality in the Ainu language -- Aleut tenses and aspects -- The expression of temporal and aspectual relations in Tokelau narratives -- Ideophones in Sign Language? The place of reduplication in the tense-aspect system of Swedish Sign Language -- Index of Languages -- Index of Names

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9783110127133 9783110883077

10.1515/9783110883077 doi


Generative grammar--Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb--Congresses.
Aktionsart.
Aspekt ‹Linguistik›.
Tempus.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

P281 / .T376 1994eb

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