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Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe / edited by Östen Dahl.
LIBRA P380 .T36 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Empirical approaches to language typology ; 20.
- Empirical approaches to language typology. EUROTYP ; 6.
- Empirical approaches to language typology. EUROTYP ; 20-6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages.
- Europe--Languages--Tense.
- Europe.
- Europe--Languages--Aspect.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 846 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000.
- Contents:
- The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a typological perspective / Osten Dahl 3
- Viewpoint operators in European languages / Lars Johanson 27
- Aspect vs. Actionality: Why they should be kept apart / Pier Marco Bertinetto, Denis Delfitto 189
- The type-referring function of the Imperfective / Eva Hedin 227
- On the areal distribution of tense-aspect categories in Europe / Rolf Thieroff 265
- Future Time Reference
- The grammar of future time reference in European languages / Osten Dahl 309
- Future marking in conditional and temporal clauses in Greek / Eva Hedin 329
- Verbs of becoming as future copulas / Osten Dahl 351
- The Perfect
- The perfect
- aspectual, temporal and evidential / Jouko Lindstedt 365
- Current relevance and event reference / Osten Dahl, Eva Hedin 385
- The Simple and Compound Past in Romance languages / Mario Squartini, Pier Marco Bertinetto 403
- On the perfect in North Slavic / Hannu Tommola 441
- Macedonian
- a language with three perfects? / Nina Graves 479
- Past tenses in Permic languages / Marja Leinonen, Maria Vilkuna 495
- The Progressive
- The progressive in Europe / Pier Marco Bertinetto, Karen H. Ebert, Casper de Groot 517
- The progressive in Romance, as compared with English / Pier Marco Bertinetto 559
- Progressive markers in Germanic languages / Karen H. Ebert 605
- Progressive aspect in Baltic Finnic / Hannu Tommola 655
- The absentive / Casper de Groot 693
- Some typological features of the viewpoint and tense system in spoken North-Western Karaim / Eva Agnes Csato 723
- Aspect in Maltese / Karen H. Ebert 753.
- Notes:
- One of nine vols. published as part of the Typology of Languages in Europe (Project).
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 3110157527
- OCLC:
- 43615853
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