1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456515003321

Autore

Lloyd Albert L. <1930->

Titolo

Anatomy of the verb [[electronic resource] ] : the Gothic verb as a model for a unified theory of aspect, actional types, and verbal velocity / / Albert L. Lloyd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : J. Benjamins, 1979

ISBN

9786613222565

90-272-8320-6

1-283-22256-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Collana

Studies in language companion series : SLCS, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 4

Disciplina

439/.9

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb

Gothic language - Verb

Indo-European languages - Verb

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

ANATOMY OF THE VERB The Gothic Verb as a Model for a Unified Theory of Aspect, Actional Types, and Verbal Velocity; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I. THEORY; I. LANGUAGE AND REALITY; II. PREDICATIONAL BIDIMENSIONALITY; III. MULTIPARTITE ACTIONS AND THE PULSE THEORY OF ACTIONAL ENERGY; IV. VERBAL VELOCITIES AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF VERBS; V. PREDICATIONAL TIME AND THE PRESENT; VI. NON-PRESENT ACTIONS AND ASPECT; VII. ASPECTUAL CONTRASTS; VIII. ACTIONAL TYPES AND PARTIAL ACTIONS; IX. MULTIPLE ACTIONS; X. THE PERFECT

XI. ASPECT AND PREDICATIONAL TYPESXII. SUMMARY; PART II. APPLICATION: The Gothic Verb; I. THE USE OF GOTHIC ASPECT: CONDITIONING FACTORS; II. ASPECT AND PREDICATIONAL TYPES IN GOTHIC; III. GOTHIC POINT-ORIENTED COMPOUNDS; AFTERWORD; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF GOTHIC VERBS; GENERAL INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The continuing debate over the existence or non-existence of formal verbal aspect in Gothic triggered the author to write this monograph



whose aim is to provide a completely new foundation for a theory of aspect and related features. Gothic, with its limited corpus, representing a translation of the Greek, and showing interesting parallels with Slavic verbal constructions, serves and an illustrative model for the theory. In Part I the author argues that a unified theory of aspect, actional types, and verbal velocity presented there possesses an internal logic and is not at variance with observ

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451847803321

Autore

Matsuo Bashō <1644-1694.>

Titolo

Bashō's journey [[electronic resource] ] : the literary prose of Matsuo Bashō / / translated with an introduction by David Landis Barnhill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005

ISBN

0-7914-8343-6

1-4237-4357-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BarnhillDavid Landis

Disciplina

895.6/132

Soggetti

Authors, Japanese - Edo period, 1600-1868 - Travel

Electronic books.

Japan Description and travel Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Journey of bleached bones in a field -- Kashima journal (Kashima kikō) -- Knapsack notebook (Oi no kobumi) -- Sarashina journal (Sarashina kikō) -- The narrow road to the deep north (Oku no hosomichi) -- Saga diary (Saga nikki) -- Selected haibun.