Tense, Aspect and Action
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Tense, Aspect and Action

Empirical and Theoretical Contributions to Language Typology

  1. 436 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Tense, Aspect and Action

Empirical and Theoretical Contributions to Language Typology

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction: An overview
  3. Verbal semantics in Functional Grammar
  4. Verbal categories, form—meaning relationships and the English perfect
  5. Verbal time reference in English: Structure and functions
  6. Russian aspect as different statement models
  7. Temporal reference, aspect and actionality: Their neutralization and interactions, mostly exemplified in Italian
  8. Change in homogeneity in verbal and nominal reference
  9. Did Aktionsart ever “compensate” verbal aspect in Old and Middle French?
  10. Some peculiarities of the aspectual system in Hungarian
  11. Aspect as boundedness in Finnish
  12. From aspect to tense in Lulubo: Morphosyntactic and semantic restructuring in a Central Sudanic language
  13. Tense, mood and aspect in Kammu
  14. Aspect in Chinese
  15. Tense, aspect and actionality in the Ainu language
  16. Aleut tenses and aspects
  17. The expression of temporal and aspectual relations in Tokelau narratives
  18. Ideophones in Sign Language? The place of reduplication in the tense—aspect system of Swedish Sign Language
  19. Index of languages
  20. Index of names