The Semantics of Aspect and Modality : Evidence from English and Biblical Hebrew.
"The semantics of aspect and modality" will be of interest both to linguists working on temporality, as a general phenomenon in language, and Hebraists investigating the semantics of the verbal forms in biblical Hebrew. Tense, aspect and modality are among the most challenging discussed ar...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1997.
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Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 34. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "The semantics of aspect and modality" will be of interest both to linguists working on temporality, as a general phenomenon in language, and Hebraists investigating the semantics of the verbal forms in biblical Hebrew. Tense, aspect and modality are among the most challenging discussed areas of language. Similarly, the semantics of the verbal system in biblical Hebrew has been investigated since the Middle Ages. Galia Hatav provides extensive critical overviews of research in both areas, and suggests a new approach for analyzing the biblical Hebrew verb system, showing it to be tenseless. The o. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (234 pages) |
ISBN: | 9789027281968 9027281963 1283280396 9781283280396 |
ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |