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The prominence of tense, aspect, and mood /
The book puts forth an exciting hypothesis for the typologist. Its major claim is that languages can generally be regarded as belonging to a tense-prominent, aspect-prominent or mood-prominent language type. This grouping can be based upon the relative prominence that languages attach to one or the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©1999.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 49. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The book puts forth an exciting hypothesis for the typologist. Its major claim is that languages can generally be regarded as belonging to a tense-prominent, aspect-prominent or mood-prominent language type. This grouping can be based upon the relative prominence that languages attach to one or the other of the three verbal categories, namely tense, aspect and mood, by grammaticalizing the chosen category to a greater degree than others, and by making it more obligatory, more systematic and more pervasive than others. The grouping, however, involves a gradation, as is indeed the case with othe. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027298737 9027298734 9789027230522 9027230528 9781556199356 155619935X |