Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages : Theory, typology, diachrony.
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1997
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| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 145. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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 merger from. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (415 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-389) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027275974 9027275971 128331245X 9781283312455 9786613312457 6613312452 |
| ISSN: | 0304-0763 ; |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
