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Author Hewson, John

Title Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages : Theory, typology, diachrony
Published Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1997

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Description 1 online resource (415 pages)
Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 145
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 145.
Contents TENSE AND ASPECT IN INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES THEORY, TYPOLOGY, DIACHRONY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; AUTHORS' PREFACE; Table of contents; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER ONE. TENSE AND ASPECT: DESCRIPTION AND THEORY; CHAPTER TWO. THE VERBAL SYSTEM OF ANCIENT GREEK; CHAPTER THREE. THE VERBAL SYSTEM OF VEDIC AND CLASSICALSANSKRIT; CHAPTER FOUR. THE VERBAL SYSTEM OF CLASSICAL ARMENIAN; CHAPTER FIVE. THE VERBAL SYSTEM OF OLD CHURCH SLAVIC; CHAPTER SIX. THE VERBAL SYSTEM OF ALBANIAN; CHAPTER SEVEN. THE VERBAL SYSTEM OF TOCHARIAN; CHAPTER EIGHT. TENSE AND ASPECT IN BALTIC
Chapter nine. tense and aspect in celticchapter ten. the latin verbal system; chapter eleven. the verbal system of germanic; chapter twelve. the verbal system of hittite; chapter thirteen. from ancient to modern greek; chapter fourteen. development of modern indic tense-aspect systems; chapter fifteen. development of modern slavic tense-aspect system; chapter sixteen. development of modern iranian tense-aspect system; chapter seventeenfrom latin to modern romance; chapter eighteen. tense and aspect in modern germanic; chapter nineteen. conclusions; appendix a; appendix b; appendix c
Appendix dreferences; index of authors; index of languages; general index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-389) and indexes
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Subject Indo-European languages -- Tense
Indo-European languages -- Aspect
Indo-European languages -- Aspect
Indo-European languages -- Tense
Form Electronic book
Author Bubenik, Vit
LC no. 97004482
ISBN 9789027275974
9027275971
128331245X
9781283312455
9786613312457
6613312452