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Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages : Theory, typology, diachrony.

This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages. Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hewson, John
Autres auteurs: Bubenik, Vit
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1997.
Collection:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 145.
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Résumé:This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages. Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors relate tense and aspect to underlying cognitive processes, and show that verbal systems have a staged development of time representations (chronogenesis). They view linguistic change as systemic and trace the evolution of the earliest tense systems by (a) aspectual split and (b) aspectual merger from.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (415 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-389) and indexes.
ISBN:9789027275974
9027275971
128331245X
9781283312455
9786613312457
6613312452
ISSN:0304-0763 ;