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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461599503321

Autore

Dahl Eystein

Titolo

Time, tense and aspect in early Vedic grammar [[electronic resource] ] : exploring inflectional semantics in the Rigveda / / by Eystein Dahl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-283-11942-0

9786613119421

90-474-4050-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (493 p.)

Collana

Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics, , 1875-6328 ; ; v. 5

Disciplina

491/.29

Soggetti

Vedic language - Semantics, Historical

Vedic language - Grammar

Vedic language - Etymology

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.