Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Östen Dahl

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000
• Edizione: Reprint 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (864 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Linguistic geography
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Languages Tense; Europe Languages Aspect
• Classificazione: ET 660
• Altri autori: DahlÖsten
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe
• ISBN: 1-282-19367-8; 9786612193675; 3-11-916212-4; 3-11-019709-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813021203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Empirical approaches to language typology. . -EUROTYP ; ; 20-6.