Tense and aspect in Indo-European languages : theory, typology, diachrony / John Hewson, Vit Bubenik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hewson, John, 1930-2022.

Contributor:

Bubeník, Vít, 1942-

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 145.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 145

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indo-European languages--Tense.

Indo-European languages.

Indo-European languages--Aspect.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1997.

Language Note:

English

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 merge

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

Notes:

This volume grew out of a doctoral seminar.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [374]-389) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-31245-X

9786613312457

90-272-7597-1

OCLC:

759101617