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Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe / edited by Osten Dahl.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Empirical approaches to language typology. EUROTYP ; 20-6.
- Empirical approaches to language typology. EUROTYP ; 20-6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistic geography.
- Europe--Languages--Tense.
- Europe.
- Europe--Languages--Aspect.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (864 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2011
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume puts the European tense-aspect systems in a consistent typological and diachronic perspective.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- General Papers
- The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a typological perspective
- Viewpoint operators in European languages
- Aspect vs. Actionality: Why they should be kept apart
- The type-referring function of the Imperfective
- On the areal distribution of tense-aspect categories in Europe
- Future Time Reference
- The grammar of future time reference in European languages
- Future marking in conditional and temporal clauses in Greek
- Verbs of becoming as future copulas
- The Perfect
- The perfect - aspectual, temporal and evidential
- Current relevance and event reference
- The Simple and Compound Past in Romance languages
- On the perfect in North Slavic
- Macedonian - a language with three perfects?
- Past tenses in Permic languages
- The Progressive
- The progressive in Europe
- The progressive in Romance, as compared with English
- Progressive markers in Germanic languages
- Progressive aspect in Baltic Finnic
- The absentive
- Case Studies
- Some typological features of the viewpoint and tense system in spoken North-Western Karaim
- Aspect in Maltese
- Back matter
- Notes:
- One of nine vols. published as part of the Typology of Languages in Europe (Project).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612193675
- 9781282193673
- 1282193678
- 9783119162128
- 3119162124
- 9783110197099
- 311019709X
- OCLC:
- 230205176
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