: Östen Dahl
: Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110197099
: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 256.60
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 859
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The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Frontmatter1
Contents11
The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a typological perspective17
Viewpoint operators in European languages41
Aspect vs. Actionality: Why they should be kept apart203
The type-referring function of the Imperfective241
On the areal distribution of tense-aspect categories in Europe279
The grammar of future time reference in European languages323
Future marking in conditional and temporal clauses in Greek343
Verbs of becoming as future copulas365
The perfect – aspectual, temporal and evidential379
Current relevance and event reference399
The Simple and Compound Past in Romance languages417
On the perfect in North Slavic455
Macedonian – a language with three perfects?493
Past tenses in Permic languages509
The progressive in Europe531
The progressive in Romance, as compared with English573
Progressive markers in Germanic languages619
Progressive aspect in Baltic Finnic669
The absentive707
Some typological features of the viewpoint and tense system in spoken North-Western Karaim737
Aspect in Maltese767
Backmatter803