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1 online resource |
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Studies in Language Companion Ser. vol. 217 |
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Studies in Language Companion Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- The Perfect Volume -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. The perfect volume: Papers on the perfect -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Delimiting and describing the perfect: Typological approaches -- 3. Morphology: Synthetic, periphrastic, ellipsis and expansion -- 4. Semantics, prototypical readings and aoristic drift -- 5. Evidentiality and the perfect -- 6. The (present) perfect: Tense or aspect? -- 7. The present perfect puzzle, remote and immediate past -- 8. Overview and summary of the contributions in this volume |
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8.1 Part I: Perfects and their relatives: Typology, diachrony, and variation -- 8.2 Part II: Perfect extensions, hodiernality and aoristic drift -- 8.3 Part III: Morphology of perfects: Development, selection and omission -- References -- Part I. Perfects and their relatives: Typology, diachrony, and variation -- Chapter 2. "Universal" readings of perfects and iamitives in typological perspective -- Introduction -- The corpora -- The gram sets -- Universal readings of perfects -- European perfects in duration-quantifying contexts -- 'Already' and iamitives in duration-quantifying contexts |
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Left boundary adverbials -- Universally quantifying adverbials -- Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 3. Perfect and its relatives in Atayal -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The unexpected pretender: Resultative -- 3. Wa(l)-construction: An almost perfect perfect -- 4. The infixed form: A discontinuous past -- 5. New formation: A specialized experiential construction in the Pyanan variety -- 6. Particle la: Yet another perfect relative -- 7. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References |
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Chapter 4. Structural and functional variations of the perfect in the Lezgic languages -- 1. The Lezgic languages: General profile -- 2. The Lezgic tense and aspect systems: An overview -- 2.1 Aspectual stems -- 2.2 Periphrastic forms -- 2.3 The place of aorists and perfects in the paradigm -- 3. Variations in the structure of the aorists and the perfects -- 3.1 The aorists -- 3.2 The perfects -- 4. Variations in the functions of aorists -- 5. Variations in the functions of the perfects -- 5.1 Perfect proper ('current relevance') meaning -- 5.2 Resultative meaning -- 5.3 Experiential meaning |
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5.4 Indirective evidential meanings -- 6. Towards the diachronic account of the Lezgic perfects -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Chapter 5. Cross-linguistic parallels and contrasts in a contact language perfect construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphological elaboration of the verb in SLM and SLP -- 3. Morphosyntactic analysis of the derivation of verbs and negation -- 4. The pragmatic function of non-finite participial clauses -- 5. The SLM perfect construction as biclausal -- 6. Contrasts in the SLP data -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
"Drawing on the data and history from a wide range of languages, from Ayatal to Zapotec, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field of tense and aspect research resulting in 18 contributions on the perfect and some of its close relatives (e.g. iamitives). Different approaches complement each other to shed light on the source, emergence, grammaticalization, and the typological extension of perfect constructions cross-linguistically. One focal point is the so-called aoristic drift, where the perfect comes to resemble the simple past or aorist (often via the hodiernal 'today' reading). The semantics and pragmatics of perfects are also investigated through their interaction with other categories (e.g. negation, mood). Over time some perfects undergo auxiliary doubling or omission, or the auxiliary becomes subject to selection. These facts also receive special attention in this book, presenting new insights on perfects in both well-studied as well as very understudied languages"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 22, 2021) |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Auxiliaries.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Auxiliaries
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Eide, Kristin M., 1965- editor.
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Fryd, Marc, editor
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| LC no. |
2021005953 |
| ISBN |
9789027259998 |
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9027259992 |
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