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Time, tense and aspect in early Vedic gramma r exploring inflectional semantics in the Rigveda / by Eystein Dahl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dahl, Eystein.
- Series:
- Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics ; 5.
- Brill eBook titles 2011
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vedic language--Etymology.
- Vedic language.
- Vedic language--Grammar.
- Vedic language--Semantics, Historical.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 475 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book takes a fresh look at the relationship between aspect, tense and mood in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda . Although numerous studies have examined the functional range of individual verbal categories in this language, this work is the first attempt to approach this problem from an overall, systemic perspective. With insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, the author demonstrates that aspect represents a grammatically relevant semantic dimension on a par with tense in the Early Vedic verbal system, thereby indicating that the language has preserved an aspectual opposition similar to the one found in Homeric Greek. Apart from these general findings, the book provides a theoretical framework designed for exploring inflectional semantics in dead languages.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / E. Dahl
- Introduction / E. Dahl
- Chapter One. Situations, Times, Worlds And Contexts / E. Dahl
- Chapter Two. Aktionsart And Morphosyntax In Early Vedic / E. Dahl
- Chapter Three. The Present System / E. Dahl
- Chapter Four. The Aorist System / E. Dahl
- Chapter Five. The Perfect System / E. Dahl
- Conclusion / E. Dahl
- Bibliography / E. Dahl
- Index Locorum / E. Dahl
- General Index / E. Dahl.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613119421
- 9781283119429
- 1283119420
- 9789047440505
- 9047440501
- OCLC:
- 727944816
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004178144.i-475 DOI
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