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The past tenses of the Mongolian verb : meaning and use /
This book details a new and comprehensive account of the meanings and uses of the four past tense endings of Modern Mongolian, in both the spoken and written languages.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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| Colección: | Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Editorial Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Conventions and Transcription; Abbreviations; Chapter One The Problem of the Mongolian Past Tenses; 1. The Mongolian Past Tenses; 1.1. The Verbal Systems of the Mongolic Languages; 1.2. The Problem of the Past Tenses; 2. Semantic Theories; 2.1. Theories Based on Tense and Aspect; 2.2. The Finite Indicative Verbs; 2.3. The Participles; 2.4. Metric (Degrees of Remoteness) Theories of the -jee and -lee Tenses; 3. Toward A Pragmatic Theory; 3.1. Discourse Functions; 3.2. The Evidential; 3.3. The Modality of -v; 3.4. The Inferential
- 3.5. Chuluu's CritiqueChapter Two Use and Interpretation of the Past Tenses in the Spoken Language; 1. Evidential and Inferential; 1.1. The Opposition of Evidentiality and Inferentiality; 1.2. Inferential -jee; 1.3. Evidential -lee; 1.4.-sen in speech; 2. Distal and Proximal; 2.1. Distal and Proximal; 2.2. Future -lee; 2.3. The Pragmatics of Immediacy; 2.4. Spoken -v and the Past Tenses in Questions; 3. Deictic and Anaphoric; 3.1. Reference Times; 3.2. Definite, Deictic, and Anaphoric Tenses; 3.3. An Implicative Hierarchy
- Chapter Three Use and Interpretation of the Past Tenses in the Written Language1. Spoken and Written Language; 1.1. Competing Grammatical Systems; 1.2. The Non-equivalence of the Written Tenses; 1.3. The Language of the Internet and Levels of Usage; 2. The Past Tenses in Writing; 2.1. Written -v; 2.2.-sen and -sen baina; 2.3.-jee and -sen baina; 2.4. Distal -lee; Chapter Four The Discourse Functions of the Tenses; 1. The Functions of the Tenses in Discourse and Text; 1.1. The Functions of Utterances; 1.2. The Three Levels of Discourse Coherence; 2. The Functions of the Past Tenses
- 2.1. Past Tenses and Temporal Reference2.2. Past Tenses and Grounding; 2.3. Past Tenses and The Topics of Threads; 2.4. The Paragraph; 3. The Functions of the Past Tenses in Various Genres; 3.1. Meaning, Use and Genre; 3.2. Diegetic and Mimetic Genres; 3.3. Genre and Tenses; 3.4. Past Tenses in the Various Genres; Remarks in Lieu of a Conclusion; Appendix; List of Works Cited; Index