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1 online resource (xiii, 846 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Empirical approaches to language typology. EUROTYP ; 20-6
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Empirical approaches to language typology. EUROTYP ; 20-6.
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| Note |
One of nine vols. published as part of the Typology of Languages in Europe (Project). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
General papers -- Tense-aspect systems of European languages in a typological perspective / Östen Dahl -- Viewpoint operators in European languages / Lars Johanson -- Aspect vs. actionality: why they should be kept apart / Pier Marco Bertinetto, Denis Delfitto -- Type-referring function of the Imperfective / Eva Hedin -- On the areal distribution of tense-aspect categories in Europe / Rolf Thieroff -- Future time reference -- Grammar of future time reference in European languages / Östen Dahl -- Future marking in conditional and temporal clauses in Greek / Eva Hedin -- Verbs of becoming as future copulas / Östen Dahl -- The perfect -- Perfect -- aspectual, temporal and evidential / Jouko Lindstedt -- Current relevance and event reference / Östen Dahl, Eva Hedin -- Simple and compound past in Romance languages / Mario Squartini, Pier Marco Bertinetto -- On the perfect in North Slavic / Hannu Tommola -- Macedonian -- a language with three perfects? / Nina Graves -- Past tenses in Permic languages / Marja Leinonen, Maria Vilkuna -- The progressive -- Progressive in Europe / Pier Marco Bertinetto, Karen H. Ebert, Casper de Groot -- Progressive in Romance, as compared with English / Pier Marco Bertinetto -- Progressive markers in Germanic languages / Karen H. Ebert -- Progressive aspect in Baltic Finnic / Hannu Tommola -- Absentive / Casper de Groot -- Case studies -- Some typological features of the viewpoint and tense system in spoken North-Western Karaim / Éva Ágnes Csató -- Aspect in Maltese / Karen H. Ebert. |
| Summary |
This volume puts the European tense-aspect systems in a consistent typological and diachronic perspective. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Linguistic geography.
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Linguistic geography. |
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Europe -- Languages -- Tense.
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Europe. |
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Language and languages. |
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Europe -- Languages -- Aspect.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dahl, Östen.
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Typology of Languages in Europe (Project)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000 (DLC) 00029180 |
| ISBN |
9783110157529 |
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3110157527 (alkaline paper) |
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311019709X |
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9783110197099 |
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