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Title Aspectuality and temporality : descriptive and theoretical issues / edited by Zlatka Guentchéva
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

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Series Studies in Language Companion Series, 0165-7763 ; 172
Studies in language companion series ; 172.
Contents Aspectuality and Temporality; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Part I. Theoretical issues; Part II. Grammatical encoding of aspectual and temporal distinctions; Part III. Indo-European aorist and Semitic aorist; Part IV. Perfects and resultatives; Part V. The Future in grammar; Part VI. Grammatical change; Acknowledgements; References; List of contributors; A cognitive and conceptual approach to tense and aspect markers; 1. Introduction; 2. Two principal linguisti; c analysis methods; 2.1 The inductive method through generalizations
2.2 A network of abstract concepts by abductive method2.2.1 Remarks; 2.3 Grammatical category; 3. Aspect-tense markers; 4. Linear, cyclic and spiral time; 5. Notions, concepts, figures, diagrams; 6. The basic concepts of temporality as expressed cross-linguistically; 6.1 Enunciative temporal frame of reference; 6.2 State, event, process; 6.3 The enunciative act is an incomplete process; 6.4 Decomposition of a situation into different phases; 6.5 Semantic map of the principal aspectual concepts; 7. Temporal relations and temporal frames of reference
7.1 Temporal relations in the enunciative temporal frame7.2 Different temporal frames of reference; 7.3 Abstract reference system; 8. Conclusions; References; Tense, aspect and mood in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia): Encoding events, processes and states; 1. Introduction: A brief presentation of Nêlêmwa; 2. Theoretical framework and terminology; 3. Tense, mood and aspect: An overview; 3.1 Temporal frame of reference and chronological ordering of events; 3.2 Irrealis and realis moods; 3.3 An overview of aspect markers: combinations and position; 3.3.1 Events in the bare aorist verb form
3.3.2 Aspect markers: perfect, recent completion, pluri-actional, incompletion3.3.3 Other aspect markers; 3.3.4 Position of aspect markers; 3.4 Combination of aspect markers; 3.4.1 Combination of the perfect (k)u ̃ (x)u and other aspect markers; 3.4.2 Combination of irrealis morphemes with the perfect; 3.4.3 Combination of irrealis morphemes with other aspect markers; 4. Irrealis mood; 4.1 Future, prospective: io ̃ e; 4.2 The virtual marker o; 4.2.1 Virtual marker o in imperative, hortative and optative sentences; 4.2.2 The morpheme o in dependent/subordinate clauses
5. The perfect: Definition and use in realis and irrealis frames5.1 The perfect in realis frames: relevance to the time of speech and narrative uses; 5.1.1 Past event relevant to the time of speech; 5.1.2 Completed process in the past temporal frame of a narrative; 5.2 The perfect with stative verbs: change of state; 5.3 Graded change of state and evolutive process with the perfect; 5.4 Respective uses of the perfect (k)u ̃ (x)u vs. the bare aorist form; 5.5 The perfect in chronologically ordered events and relative time constructions
Summary This volume brings together a collection of articles exploring tense and aspect phenomena in a variety of non-related languages: Indo-European (Albanian, Bulgarian, Armenian, English, Norwegian, Hindi), Hamito-Semitic (Berber, Zenaga Berber, Arabic varieties, Neo-Aramaic), African (Wolof, Langi), Asian (Badaga, Korean, Mongolian languages - Khalkha, Buriat, Kalmuck - Thaï, Tibetic languages), Amerindian (Yucatec Maya, Sikuani), Greenlandic (Eskimo) and Oceanian (Nêlêmwa). Each article is grounded in solid empirical knowledge. It offers an in-depth study of aspectual and temporal devices as man
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Functionalism (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Aspect.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Functionalism (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Aspect
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense
Form Electronic book
Author Guentchéva, Zlatka, editor
LC no. 2015042895
ISBN 9789027267610
9027267618