Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages Theory, Typology, Diachrony

Name: Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages Theory, Typology, Diachrony
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ISBN: 9781556198601

ISBN-10: 1556198604

ISBN-13: 9781556198601

Edition: 1997

Authors: John Hewson, Vit Bubenik

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This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages.Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors relate tense and aspect to underlying cognitive processes, and show that verbal systems have a staged development of time representations (chronogenesis). They view linguistic change as systemic and trace the evolution of the earliest tense systems by (a) aspectual split and (b) aspectual merger from the original aspectual contrasts of PIE, the evidence for such systemic change showing clearly in…

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List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication date: 3/6/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 415
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.496



Authors' Preface


List of Abbreviations



Tense and Aspect: Description and Theory




Languages with the original three-aspect system: PRESENT - AORIST - PERFECT



The Verbal System of Ancient Greek




The Verbal System of Vedic and Classical Sanskrit




Languages with the original Present - AORIST system and innovative PERFECT



The Verbal System of Classical Armenian




The Verbal System of Old Church Slavic




The Verbal System of Albanian




The Verbal System of Tocharian




Languages with a three-tense system



Tense and Aspect in Baltic




Tense and Aspect in Celtic




The Latin Verbal System




Languages with merged the original AORIST And PERFECT into the PRETERIT



The Verbal System of Germanic (Gothic, Old English)




The Verbal System of Anatolian (Hittite)




Later Developments



From Ancient to Modern Greek




Development of Modern Indic Tense-Aspect System




Development of Modern Slavic Tense-Aspect System




Development of Modern Iranian Tense-Aspect System




From Latin to Modern Romance




Tense and Aspect in Modern Germanic




Conclusions



Appendices


References


Indexes