Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe write by Östen Dahl. This book was released on 2008-08-22. Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages
Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages write by John Hewson. This book was released on 1997-03-06. Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 the original aspectual contrasts of PIE, the evidence for such systemic change showing clearly in the paradigmatic morphology of the daughter languages. The nineteen chapters cover first the ancient documentation, then those families whose historical data are from a more recent date. The last chapters deal with the systemic evolution of languages that are descended from ancient forbears such as Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, and are completed by a chapter on the practical and theoretical conclusions of the work.
Time and the Verb
Time and the Verb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time and the Verb write by Robert I. Binnick. This book was released on 1991-06-20. Time and the Verb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive examination of tense and grammatical aspect provides fascinating insight into how languages indicate distinctions of time. Providing an in-depth survey of the scholarship from the ancient Greeks through the 1980s, Time and the Verb explains and evaluates every major issue and theory, concentrating on familiar Classical and modern European languages. An invaluable reference tool as well as a major contribution to the history of linguistic sciences, this book will be the standard against which future work on tense and aspect is measured.
Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe
Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe write by Typology of Languages in Europe (Project). This book was released on 1998. Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is part of a series of nine volumes publishing the results of the research project "Typology of Languages in Europe" (EUROTYP)--based on a 1988 workshop by the Standing Committee for the Humanities, the European Science Foundation, and involving participation by more than 100 linguists. The major goal of EUROTY was to study the cross-linguistic patterns and limitations of variation in nine focal areas: pragmatic organization of discourse, constituent order, subordination and complementation, adverbial constructions, tense and aspect, noun phrase structure, clitics, and word prosodic systems in the languages of Europe. This effort provided a testing ground for theoretical controversies and new theory development, as detailed here by a dozen contributors. Includes a language index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond
Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond write by Robert Crellin. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides a detailed investigation of perfects from all the branches of the Indo-European language family, in some cases representing the first ever comprehensive description. Thorough philological examinations result in empirically well-founded analyses illustrated with over 940 examples. The unique temporal depth and diatopic breadth of attested Indo-European languages permits the investigation of both TAME (Tense-Aspect-Mood-Evidentiality) systems over time and recurring cycles of change, as well as synchronic patterns of areal distribution and contact phenomena. These possibilities are fully exploited in the volume. Furthermore, the cross-linguistic perspective adopted by many authors, as well as the inclusion of contributions which go beyond the boundaries of the Indo-European family per se, facilitates typological comparison. As such, the volume is intended to serve as a springboard for future research both into the semantics of the perfect in Indo-European itself, and verb systems across the world’s languages.
