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Time, tense and aspect in early Vedic grammar : exploring inflectional semantics in the Rigveda /
This book takes a fresh look at the relationship between aspect, tense and mood in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda. Although numerous studies have examined the functional range of individual verbal categories in this language, this work is the first attempt to approach this problem from an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book takes a fresh look at the relationship between aspect, tense and mood in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda. Although numerous studies have examined the functional range of individual verbal categories in this language, this work is the first attempt to approach this problem from an overall, systemic perspective. With insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, the author demonstrates that aspect represents a grammatically relevant semantic dimension on a par with tense in the Early Vedic verbal system, which indicates that the language has preserved an aspectual op. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 475 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789047440505 9047440501 1283119420 9781283119429 9786613119421 6613119423 |