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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lloyd, Albert L., 1930-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins, 1979.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
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