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Autore |
Lloyd Albert L. <1930-> |
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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 |
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Amsterdam, : J. Benjamins, 1979 |
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ISBN |
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9786613222565 |
90-272-8320-6 |
1-283-22256-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (361 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in language companion series : SLCS, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 4 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb |
Gothic language - Verb |
Indo-European languages - Verb |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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 |
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