Diachronic and typological perspectives on verbs /
Aramaic is a language belonging to the Semitic family. It was one of the major languages of the Ancient Near East and has survived as a spoken language down to modern times in various dialect groups. The largest and most diverse group of these modern dialects is the North Eastern group, which is gen...
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2013
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; In memoriam Kjartan Ottosson; Table of contents; Introduction; References; On tense and mood in conditional clauses from Early to Late Latin; 1. The development of the Latin verbal system ; 2. The future tenses in conditional clauses ; 3. The present tense in conditional clauses ; 4. The past tenses in conditional clauses ; 4.1 Early and Classical Latin ; 4.2 In Late Latin; 5. Conclusions ; References; The fate of the subjunctive in late Middle Persian; 1. Introduction.
- 2. The subjunctive in classical MP 3. Vestiges of the subjunctive in late MP/Pahlavi ; 4. Alternatives to subjunctive mood in late MP/Pahlavi ; 4.1 Future ; 4.2 Subordinate clause as complement of the main clause verb ; 4.3 Subordinate clauses with adverbial status ; 4.4 Conditionals ; 4.5 Summary ; 5. Conclusions ; 6. Abbreviations ; Corpus ; Manichaean Middle Persian (MMP) ; Late Middle Persian texts (9th and 10th century Pahlavi books) ; References ; The negated imperative in Russian and other Slavic languages: Aspectual and modal meanings; 1. Introduction.
- 2. Interaction between negation and imperative modality 3. The principal meanings of the negated imperative ; 3.1 Prohibitive meaning ; 3.2 Preventive meaning ; 4. Inverse imperatives ; 5. Summary ; References ; Grammaticalisation of verbs into temporal and modal markers in Australian languages; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Preliminary considerations ; 1.2 Sources of tense, aspect and mood markers in Australian languages ; 1.3 Aims and organisation of paper ; 2. Verbal sources of Aktionsart markers ; 3. Verbal sources of aspect derivational morphology ; 4. Verbal sources of mood inflections.
- 5. Verbal sources of tense (and aspect) inflections 6. Conclusions ; References ; Aspect and tense in counterfactual main clauses: Fake or real?; 1. Introduction ; 2. TAM in counterfactuals
- some data from a parallel corpus ; 3. Two different fake imperfectives ; 4. In mood for chess: the counterfactual imperfective ; 5. The anaphoric past (in French) ; 6. The competition perspective ; 7. From the factual to the counterfactual imperfective in Russian ; 8. Towards a principled explanation for the emergence of the fake imperfective ; 8.1 Case 1: "came" vs. "came and left."
- 8.2 Case 2: factual vs. counterfactual outcome 9. Conclusion ; References ; On non-canonical modal clause junction in Turkic; 1. Synthetic markers ; 2. Canonic periphrastic modal constructions ; 3. Non-canonical periphrastic modal constructions ; 4. Distribution ; 5. Modal agreement constructions ; 6. Examples ; Volition ; Necessity ; Possibility ; 7. The role of language contact ; Glosses ; References ; Reference, aspectuality and modality in ante-preterit (pluperfect) in Romance languages; 1. Introduction ; 2. A diachronic and comparative perspective.
