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1 online resource |
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Studies in language companion series ; 134 |
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Studies in language companion series ; 134.
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| Contents |
Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; In memoriam Kjartan Ottosson; Table of contents; Introduction; References; On tense and mood in conditional clauses from Early to Late Latin; 1. The development of the Latin verbal system ; 2. The future tenses in conditional clauses ; 3. The present tense in conditional clauses ; 4. The past tenses in conditional clauses ; 4.1 Early and Classical Latin ; 4.2 In Late Latin; 5. Conclusions ; References; The fate of the subjunctive in late Middle Persian; 1. Introduction |
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2. The subjunctive in classical MP 3. Vestiges of the subjunctive in late MP/Pahlavi ; 4. Alternatives to subjunctive mood in late MP/Pahlavi ; 4.1 Future ; 4.2 Subordinate clause as complement of the main clause verb ; 4.3 Subordinate clauses with adverbial status ; 4.4 Conditionals ; 4.5 Summary ; 5. Conclusions ; 6. Abbreviations ; Corpus ; Manichaean Middle Persian (MMP) ; Late Middle Persian texts (9th and 10th century Pahlavi books) ; References ; The negated imperative in Russian and other Slavic languages: Aspectual and modal meanings; 1. Introduction |
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2. Interaction between negation and imperative modality 3. The principal meanings of the negated imperative ; 3.1 Prohibitive meaning ; 3.2 Preventive meaning ; 4. Inverse imperatives ; 5. Summary ; References ; Grammaticalisation of verbs into temporal and modal markers in Australian languages; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Preliminary considerations ; 1.2 Sources of tense, aspect and mood markers in Australian languages ; 1.3 Aims and organisation of paper ; 2. Verbal sources of Aktionsart markers ; 3. Verbal sources of aspect derivational morphology ; 4. Verbal sources of mood inflections |
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5. Verbal sources of tense (and aspect) inflections 6. Conclusions ; References ; Aspect and tense in counterfactual main clauses: Fake or real?; 1. Introduction ; 2. TAM in counterfactuals -- some data from a parallel corpus ; 3. Two different fake imperfectives ; 4. In mood for chess: the counterfactual imperfective ; 5. The anaphoric past (in French) ; 6. The competition perspective ; 7. From the factual to the counterfactual imperfective in Russian ; 8. Towards a principled explanation for the emergence of the fake imperfective ; 8.1 Case 1: "came" vs. "came and left." |
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8.2 Case 2: factual vs. counterfactual outcome 9. Conclusion ; References ; On non-canonical modal clause junction in Turkic; 1. Synthetic markers ; 2. Canonic periphrastic modal constructions ; 3. Non-canonical periphrastic modal constructions ; 4. Distribution ; 5. Modal agreement constructions ; 6. Examples ; Volition ; Necessity ; Possibility ; 7. The role of language contact ; Glosses ; References ; Reference, aspectuality and modality in ante-preterit (pluperfect) in Romance languages; 1. Introduction ; 2. A diachronic and comparative perspective |
| Summary |
Aramaic is a language belonging to the Semitic family. It was one of the major languages of the Ancient Near East and has survived as a spoken language down to modern times in various dialect groups. The largest and most diverse group of these modern dialects is the North Eastern group, which is generally known as North Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA). This consists of dialects spoken by Christian and Jewish communities across a wide area encompassing northern Iraq, north-west Iran, south-eastern Turkey, Armenia and Georgia. The Christian dialects in all cases differ from the Jewish dialects, even |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.
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Historical linguistics.
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Typology (Linguistics)
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historical linguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb
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Historical linguistics
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Typology (Linguistics)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Josephson, Folke.
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| LC no. |
2013012307 |
| ISBN |
9789027271815 |
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902727181X |
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1299711685 |
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9781299711686 |
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