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Anatomy of the verb : the Gothic verb as a model for a unified theory of aspect, actional types, and verbal velocity /
The continuing debate over the existence or non-existence of formal verbal aspect in Gothic triggered the author to write this monograph whose aim is to provide a completely new foundation for a theory of aspect and related features. Gothic, with its limited corpus, representing a translation of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins,
1979.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The continuing debate over the existence or non-existence of formal verbal aspect in Gothic triggered the author to write this monograph whose aim is to provide a completely new foundation for a theory of aspect and related features. Gothic, with its limited corpus, representing a translation of the Greek, and showing interesting parallels with Slavic verbal constructions, serves and an illustrative model for the theory. In Part I the author argues that a unified theory of aspect, actional types, and verbal velocity presented there possesses an internal logic and is not at variance with observed facts in various Indo-European languages. In Part II an analysis is presented of the Gothic verb system which seeks to explain the much-disputed function of ga- and to solve the problem of Gothic aspect and actional types which does no violence either to the Gothic text or the Greek original. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 351 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-336). |
| ISBN: | 9789027283207 9027283206 902723003X 9789027230034 9786613222565 6613222569 1283222566 9781283222563 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 |