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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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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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam, : J. Benjamins, 1979 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 439/.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb |
| Gothic language - Verb | |
| Indo-European languages - Verb | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Anatomy of the verb |
| ISBN: | 9786613222565 |
| 90-272-8320-6 | |
| 1-283-22256-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781790203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 4.