On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia / / edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Lindsay J. Whaley
| On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia / / edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Lindsay J. Whaley |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylavania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (455 p.) |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Collana | Studies in Language Companion Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Linguistic change Multilingualism - Europe Multilingualism - Asia Discourse analysis - Social aspects - Europe Discourse analysis - Social aspects - Asia Typology (Linguistics) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-272-6936-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of content; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; I. Verbal categories and processes in categorization; II. Syntactic functions and case marking; III. Clause combining and discourse; IV. Historical issues; References; The tense-aspect system of Khorchin; 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Data collection and research methdology; 4. Structure of the Khorchin TA system; 5. Markers of the Khorchin TA system; 5.1 Central system
5.1.1 The Non-Past Non-Progressive -na5.1.2 The Past Non-Imperfective -zE; 5.1.3 Present Progressive and Past Imperfective; 5.1.4 Prospectives; 5.1.5 Markers of resultativity, iterativity and continuativity; 5.2 Minor simple forms and their combinability; 5.2.1 -sen; 5.2.2 -lE; 5.2.3 -i; 5.3 Non-verbal predications; 5.4 Non-temporal and non-aspectual notions; 5.4.1 -tqeg- as a marker of dissatisfaction; 5.4.2 gene and other means related to evidentiality; 5.4.3 Long vs. short suffix variants; 6. Areal and diachronic factors: A preliminary evaluation; References Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language1. Introduction: Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language; 2. Morphological structure of South Siberian Turkic; 3. An outline of biverbal constructions and their grammaticalization paths in South Siberian Turkic; 3.1 Biverbal constructions; 3.2 Aktionsart; 3.3 Aspect-temporal forms; 3.4 Forms of modality and mood; 3.5 Combinations of various biverbal constructions; 4. From an actional form to an aspect-temporal one Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Morphological causatives and passives in Xibe; 4. Functional explanation; 4.1 Condition 1: 'Give' as a matrix verb functioning as an analytic causative; 4.2 Condition 2: Matrix verbs become auxiliaries, and/or derivational suffixes; 4.3 Condition 3: Subjects and accusative case markers are often omitted; 4.4 The path to causative/passive isomorphism; 5. Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; Appendix - the corpus; Spatial semantics, case and relator nouns in Evenki; 1. Introduction 2. Overview of the cases |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460131803321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylavania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia / / edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Lindsay J. Whaley
| On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia / / edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Lindsay J. Whaley |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylavania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (455 p.) |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Collana | Studies in Language Companion Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Linguistic change Multilingualism - Europe Multilingualism - Asia Discourse analysis - Social aspects - Europe Discourse analysis - Social aspects - Asia Typology (Linguistics) |
| ISBN | 90-272-6936-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of content; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; I. Verbal categories and processes in categorization; II. Syntactic functions and case marking; III. Clause combining and discourse; IV. Historical issues; References; The tense-aspect system of Khorchin; 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Data collection and research methdology; 4. Structure of the Khorchin TA system; 5. Markers of the Khorchin TA system; 5.1 Central system
5.1.1 The Non-Past Non-Progressive -na5.1.2 The Past Non-Imperfective -zE; 5.1.3 Present Progressive and Past Imperfective; 5.1.4 Prospectives; 5.1.5 Markers of resultativity, iterativity and continuativity; 5.2 Minor simple forms and their combinability; 5.2.1 -sen; 5.2.2 -lE; 5.2.3 -i; 5.3 Non-verbal predications; 5.4 Non-temporal and non-aspectual notions; 5.4.1 -tqeg- as a marker of dissatisfaction; 5.4.2 gene and other means related to evidentiality; 5.4.3 Long vs. short suffix variants; 6. Areal and diachronic factors: A preliminary evaluation; References Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language1. Introduction: Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language; 2. Morphological structure of South Siberian Turkic; 3. An outline of biverbal constructions and their grammaticalization paths in South Siberian Turkic; 3.1 Biverbal constructions; 3.2 Aktionsart; 3.3 Aspect-temporal forms; 3.4 Forms of modality and mood; 3.5 Combinations of various biverbal constructions; 4. From an actional form to an aspect-temporal one Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Morphological causatives and passives in Xibe; 4. Functional explanation; 4.1 Condition 1: 'Give' as a matrix verb functioning as an analytic causative; 4.2 Condition 2: Matrix verbs become auxiliaries, and/or derivational suffixes; 4.3 Condition 3: Subjects and accusative case markers are often omitted; 4.4 The path to causative/passive isomorphism; 5. Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; Appendix - the corpus; Spatial semantics, case and relator nouns in Evenki; 1. Introduction 2. Overview of the cases |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787107603321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylavania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia / / edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Lindsay J. Whaley
| On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia / / edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Lindsay J. Whaley |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylavania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (455 p.) |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Collana | Studies in Language Companion Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Linguistic change Multilingualism - Europe Multilingualism - Asia Discourse analysis - Social aspects - Europe Discourse analysis - Social aspects - Asia Typology (Linguistics) |
| ISBN | 90-272-6936-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of content; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; I. Verbal categories and processes in categorization; II. Syntactic functions and case marking; III. Clause combining and discourse; IV. Historical issues; References; The tense-aspect system of Khorchin; 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Data collection and research methdology; 4. Structure of the Khorchin TA system; 5. Markers of the Khorchin TA system; 5.1 Central system
5.1.1 The Non-Past Non-Progressive -na5.1.2 The Past Non-Imperfective -zE; 5.1.3 Present Progressive and Past Imperfective; 5.1.4 Prospectives; 5.1.5 Markers of resultativity, iterativity and continuativity; 5.2 Minor simple forms and their combinability; 5.2.1 -sen; 5.2.2 -lE; 5.2.3 -i; 5.3 Non-verbal predications; 5.4 Non-temporal and non-aspectual notions; 5.4.1 -tqeg- as a marker of dissatisfaction; 5.4.2 gene and other means related to evidentiality; 5.4.3 Long vs. short suffix variants; 6. Areal and diachronic factors: A preliminary evaluation; References Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language1. Introduction: Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language; 2. Morphological structure of South Siberian Turkic; 3. An outline of biverbal constructions and their grammaticalization paths in South Siberian Turkic; 3.1 Biverbal constructions; 3.2 Aktionsart; 3.3 Aspect-temporal forms; 3.4 Forms of modality and mood; 3.5 Combinations of various biverbal constructions; 4. From an actional form to an aspect-temporal one Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Morphological causatives and passives in Xibe; 4. Functional explanation; 4.1 Condition 1: 'Give' as a matrix verb functioning as an analytic causative; 4.2 Condition 2: Matrix verbs become auxiliaries, and/or derivational suffixes; 4.3 Condition 3: Subjects and accusative case markers are often omitted; 4.4 The path to causative/passive isomorphism; 5. Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; Appendix - the corpus; Spatial semantics, case and relator nouns in Evenki; 1. Introduction 2. Overview of the cases |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814970303321 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylavania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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