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Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe : Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe.
This volume puts the European tense-aspect systems in a consistent typological and diachronic perspective. The book advances our understanding of the dynamics of tense and aspect systems, how they develop over time, and how this is reflected in the rich patterns of synchronic variation and their are...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter,
2000.
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| Series: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter ; Contents; The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a typological perspective; Viewpoint operators in European languages; Aspect vs. Actionality: Why they should be kept apart; The type-referring function of the Imperfective; On the areal distribution of tense-aspect categories in Europe; The grammar of future time reference in European languages; Future marking in conditional and temporal clauses in Greek; Verbs of becoming as future copulas; The perfect
- aspectual, temporal and evidential; Current relevance and event reference.
- The Simple and Compound Past in Romance languagesOn the perfect in North Slavic; Macedonian
- a language with three perfects?; Past tenses in Permic languages; The progressive in Europe; The progressive in Romance, as compared with English; Progressive markers in Germanic languages; Progressive aspect in Baltic Finnic; The absentive; Some typological features of the viewpoint and tense system in spoken North-Western Karaim; Aspect in Maltese; Backmatter.