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Aspectuality and Temporality
Descriptive and theoretical issues
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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 manifested in many diverse and complex ways from a cross-linguistic perspective and seeks to contribute to our understanding of the domain under consideration and more broadly to linguistic typology and theoretical linguistics, especially the enunciative approach. The book gives readers access to a collection of data and is of particular interest to scholars working on aspectuality and temporality, on pragmatics, on areal linguistics and on typology.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 172] 2016. xi, 740 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 22 February 2016
Published online on 22 February 2016
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- List of contributors | pp. ix–xi
- IntroductionZlatka Guentchéva | pp. 1–24
- Part I. Theoretical issues
- A cognitive and conceptual approach to tense and aspect markersJean-Pierre Desclés | pp. 27–60
- Part II. Grammatical encoding of aspectual and temporal distinctions
- Tense, aspect and mood in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia): Encoding events, processes and statesIsabelle Bril | pp. 63–108
- On the tense-aspect system of standard Thai*René Gsell | pp. 109–130
- Dravidian conceptual basis for the Badaga “tenses”Christiane Pilot-Raichoor | pp. 131–170
- Tense and aspect in the verbal system of Wolof*Stéphane Robert | pp. 171–230
- Tense and aspect in Langi*Margaret Dunham | pp. 231–264
- Aspect in SikuaniFrancesc Queixalós | pp. 265–294
- Part III. Grammatical aspect and Aktionsarten
- Aspect-tense relations in East GreenlandicPhilippe Mennecier | pp. 297–324
- On interaction between external and internal markers in expressing aspect in Arabic dialect varietiesSamia Naïm | pp. 325–354
- Part IV. Indo-European Aorist and Hamito-Semitic Aorist
- The aorist and the perfect in Albanian*Jean-Louis Duchet and Remzi Përnaska | pp. 357–374
- The aorist in Modern Armenian: Core values and contextual meaningsAnaid Donabedian | pp. 375–412
- The verbal form V-ā in Hindi/Urdu: An aorist with “aoristic” meaningsAnnie Montaut | pp. 413–446
- The aorist in BerberLionel Galand | pp. 447–464
- The Aorist in Zenaga Berber and the Imperfective in two Arabic dialects: A comparative viewpointCatherine Taine-Cheikh | pp. 465–502
- Part V. Perfects and resultatives
- Modern Greek -tos (τος) and -menos (μενος): Two truly aspectual suffixes*Eleni Valma | pp. 505–524
- Resultative Interpretation of Predicates in Korean*Injoo Choi-Jonin | pp. 525–562
- On two types of result: Resultatives revisited*Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova | pp. 563–596
- Part VI. The Future and future reference
- Future and prospective in the Mongolic languagesRobert I. Binnick | pp. 599–624
- The future tenses in the Tibetic languages: Diachronic and dialectal perspectivesNicolas Tournadre | pp. 625–642
- No escape from the future: Temporal frames and prediction in Yucatec Maya*Valentina Vapnarsky | pp. 643–678
- The Bulgarian future in light of the temporal frames of referenceZlatka Guentchéva | pp. 679–702
- Part VII. Grammatical change
- Aspect as the source of diathesis in NorthEastern Neo-Aramaic and beyond with remarks on transitivity, accusativity, ergativity and casePablo I. Kirtchuk-Halevi | pp. 705–726
- Language Index | pp. 727–728
- Author Index | pp. 729–734
- Subject Index | pp. 735–740
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