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1 online resource (xviii, 475 pages) : illustrations |
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Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics ; v. 5 |
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Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics ; v. 5.
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| Contents |
Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; A Note on Transcription Conventions; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction; Chapter One Situations, Times, Worlds and Contexts; 1.1 The semantics of time and modality; 1.2 Aspect, situations and contexts; Chapter Two Aktionsart and Morphosyntax in Early Vedic; 2.1 Lexical semantic features; 2.2 Telic and atelic verb phrases; Chapter Three The Present System; 3.1 The Present Indicative; 3.2 The Imperfect; 3.3 The Non-Indicative Modal Categories of the Present Paradigm; 3.4 The Present Participle |
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3.5 The Aspectual Reference of the Present Stem Chapter Four The Aorist System; 4.1 The Aorist Indicative; 4.2 The Non-Indicative Modal Categories of the Aorist Paradigm; 4.3 The Aorist Participle; 4.4 The Aspectual Reference of the Aorist Stem; Chapter Five The Perfect System; 5.1 The Perfect Indicative; 5.2 The Pluperfect; 5.3 The Non-Indicative Modal Categories of the Perfect Paradigm; 5.4 The Perfect Participle; 5.5 The Aspectual Reference of the Perfect Stem; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index |
| Summary |
This book takes a fresh look at the relationship between aspect, tense and mood in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda. Although numerous studies have examined the functional range of individual verbal categories in this language, this work is the first attempt to approach this problem from an overall, systemic perspective. With insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, the author demonstrates that aspect represents a grammatically relevant semantic dimension on a par with tense in the Early Vedic verbal system, which indicates that the language has preserved an aspectual op |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Vedic language -- Semantics, Historical
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Vedic language -- Grammar
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Vedic language -- Etymology.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Ancient Languages.
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Vedic language -- Etymology
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Vedic language -- Grammar
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789047440505 |
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9047440501 |
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1283119420 |
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9781283119429 |
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9786613119421 |
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6613119423 |
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