Telicity and durativity : a study of aspect in Dëne Sųłiné (Chipewyan) and German / Andrea Wilhelm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilhelm, Andrea.

Series:

Studies in linguistics (New York, N.Y.)

Studies in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chipewyan language--Aspect.

Chipewyan language.

German language--Aspect.

German language.

Chipewyan language--Temporal constructions.

German language--Temporal constructions.

Chipewyan language--Grammar, Comparative--Germany.

German language--Grammar, Comparative.

Germany.

German language--Grammar, Comparative--Chipewyan.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Aspect.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

xvi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, [2007]

Contents:

1 Basic Research Question 1

3 Findings: Preview 10

4 Theoretical Assumptions 10

Part I Dene Suline

Chapter 2 Viewpoint Aspect and Its Influence on Situation Type in Dene 23

2 The Dene Viewpoints 34

3 Perfectivity and Telicity 53

Chapter 3 Telicity Is Not Grammatized in Dene 69

1 Verb Theme Categories 70

2 Conjugation Markers 77

3 CM's Do Not Mark Telicity (but Perhaps Durativity) 90

4 Objects 119

Part II German

Chapter 4 Telicity in German 135

1 Telicity Is Easily Distinguished 136

2 Telicity in the Morphosyntax I: Well-Known Facts 139

3 Telicity in the Morphosyntax II: Particle Verbs and Telicity 149

Chapter 5 Viewpoint Aspect and Durativity in German 165

1 Viewpoint Aspect in German? 166

2 Durativity Is Not Grammatized 190

Chapter 6 The Grammatization of Aspectual Notions 203

2 The Different Natures of Telicity and Durativity 205

3 Grammatization 210

4 Non-Grammatization 217

5 Implications, Consequences, Further Work 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-325) and indexes.

ISBN:

0415976456

9780415976459

OCLC:

67392792