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Autore: | Bhat D.N.S |
Titolo: | The Prominence of Tense, Aspect and Mood [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
Disciplina: | 415 |
Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb |
Linguistics | |
Typology (Linguistics) | |
Philology & Linguistics | |
Languages & Literatures | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | THE PROMINENCE OF TENSE, ASPECT AND MOOD; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; CHAPTER 2. Category of Tense; CHAPTER 3. Category of Aspect; CHAPTER 4. Category of Mood; CHAPTER 5. Basis of the Typology; CHAPTER 6. Classification of Languages; CHAPTER 7. Correlatable Characteristics; References; Index; STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES (SLCS) |
Sommario/riassunto: | The book puts forth an exciting hypothesis for the typologist. Its major claim is that languages can generally be regarded as belonging to a tense-prominent, aspect-prominent or mood-prominent language type. This grouping can be based upon the relative prominence that languages attach to one or the other of the three verbal categories, namely tense, aspect and mood, by grammaticalizing the chosen category to a greater degree than others, and by making it more obligatory, more systematic and more pervasive than others. The grouping, however, involves a gradation, as is indeed the case with othe |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Prominence of Tense, Aspect and Mood |
ISBN: | 1-282-16296-9 |
9786612162961 | |
90-272-9873-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910782196703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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