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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467351503321

Autore

Klein Wolfgang

Titolo

Looking at language / / Wolfgang Klein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-11-054730-9

3-11-054911-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (528 pages)

Collana

Trends in linguistics studies and monographs ; ; Volume 317

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Linguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Concepts of time -- A time-relational analysis of Russian aspect -- An analysis of the German Perfekt -- Aspect and assertion in mandarin Chinese -- On times and arguments -- On the "Imperfective paradox" and related problems -- Local deixis in route directions -- Some notorious pitfalls in the analysis of spatial expressions -- Time and again -- On the scope of negation1 -- About the German particles schon and noch -- The information structure of French -- Quaestio and L-perspectivation -- Finiteness, universal grammar and the language faculty -- The basic variety (or: couldn't natural languages be much simpler?) -- Why case marking? -- The grammar of varieties -- Index