Tense and aspect in informal Welsh /
The author analyses the meanings of the inflections of finite verbs, perfect aspect, and progressive aspect in informal Welsh. The inflections convey factuality, tense, aspect, and habituality. Perfect aspect conveys anterior time or provides a retrospective view. Progressive aspect conveys a durati...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Welsh |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2010.
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Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
223. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The author analyses the meanings of the inflections of finite verbs, perfect aspect, and progressive aspect in informal Welsh. The inflections convey factuality, tense, aspect, and habituality. Perfect aspect conveys anterior time or provides a retrospective view. Progressive aspect conveys a durative view of a situation. There are exceptions to the general analyses and various constraints are discussed. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 389 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9783110227970 3110227975 1282784102 9781282784109 9786612784101 6612784105 3111742725 9783111742724 |