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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813021203321

Titolo

Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe / / edited by Osten Dahl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000

ISBN

1-282-19367-8

9786612193675

3-11-916212-4

3-11-019709-X

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (864 p.)

Collana

Empirical approaches to language typology. EUROTYP ; ; 20-6

Classificazione

ET 660

Altri autori (Persone)

DahlOsten

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Linguistic geography

Europe Languages Tense

Europe Languages Aspect

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

One of nine vols. published as part of the Typology of Languages in Europe (Project).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- General Papers -- The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a typological perspective -- Viewpoint operators in European languages -- Aspect vs. Actionality: Why they should be kept apart -- The type-referring function of the Imperfective -- On the areal distribution of tense-aspect categories in Europe -- Future Time Reference -- The grammar of future time reference in European languages -- Future marking in conditional and temporal clauses in Greek -- Verbs of becoming as future copulas -- The Perfect -- The perfect - aspectual, temporal and evidential -- Current relevance and event reference -- The Simple and Compound Past in Romance languages -- On the perfect in North Slavic -- Macedonian - a language with three perfects? -- Past tenses in Permic languages -- The Progressive -- The progressive in Europe -- The progressive in Romance, as compared with English -- Progressive markers in Germanic languages -- Progressive aspect in Baltic Finnic -- The absentive -- Case Studies -- Some typological features of the viewpoint and tense system in spoken North-Western Karaim -- Aspect in Maltese -- Back matter



Sommario/riassunto

This volume puts the European tense-aspect systems in a consistent typological and diachronic perspective.