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Tense-aspect, transitivity and causativity : essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov / edited by Werner Abraham, Leonid Kulikov.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in language companion series ; v. 50.
- Studies in language companion series ; v. 50
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Causative (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (396 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir Petrovich Nedjalkov. The volume honors this reputed scholar for his life work. It is in mainly this spirit (and the EUROTYPE spirit) that the following scholars have contributed to the volume: T.Tsunoda on Warrungu (Australian indigeneous language), L. Kulikov on Vedic, K. Kiryu on Japanese, Korean an
- Contents:
- TENSE-ASPECT, TRANSITIVITY AND CAUSATIVITY; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Vladimir Nedjalkov: List of main publications; Aspect and transitivity of iterative constructions in Warrungu; Split causativity: Remarks on correlations between transitivity, aspect, and tense; Conceptualization and aspect in some Asian languages; Evidentiality, transitivity and split ergativity: Evidence from Svan; On the semantics of some Russian causative constructions: Aspect, control, and types of causation; Some notes on the Georgian resultative
- Preterites and imperfects in the languages of EuropeThe qualitative meaning of Russian imperfective verbs in passive constructions; Typological notes on aspect and actionality in Kipchak Turkic; Distributivity: More than aspect; The past perfect in Armenian; Aspects of aspect in Korean psych-predicates: Implications for psych-predicates in general; How descending is ascending German? On the deep interrelations between tense, aspect, pronominality, and ergativity; Verbal temporalization in Russian and English; A typology of phasal meanings; Degrees of focality in Kalmyk imperfectives
- Aspectual classification of nouns: A case study of RussianSubject Index; STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES (SLCS)
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-16295-0
- 9786612162954
- 90-272-9872-6
- OCLC:
- 70768512
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