Eurotyp : : Typology of Languages in Europe. / 6, : Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe / / ed. by Östen Dahl.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bertinetto, Pier Marco,; Csató, Éva Ágnes,; Dahl, Östen,; Delfitto, Denis,; Ebert, Karen H.,; Graves, Nina,; Groot, Casper,; Hedin, Eva,; Johanson, Lars,; Leinonen, Marja,; Lindstedt, Jouko,; Squartini, Mario,; Thieroff, Rolf,; Tommola, Hannu,; Vilkuna, Maria,
• HerausgeberIn: Dahl, Östen,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 20-6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (846 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• General Papers
• The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a
• typological perspective
• Viewpoint operators in European languages
• Aspect vs. Actionality: Why they should be kept
• apart
• The type-referring function of the
• Imperfective
• On the areal distribution of tense-aspect
• categories in Europe
• Future Time Reference
• The grammar of future time reference in European
• languages
• Future marking in conditional and temporal clauses
• in Greek
• Verbs of becoming as future copulas
• The Perfect
• The perfect – aspectual, temporal and
• evidential
• Current relevance and event reference
• The Simple and Compound Past in Romance
• languages
• On the perfect in North Slavic
• Macedonian – a language with three
• perfects?
• Past tenses in Permic languages
• The Progressive
• The progressive in Europe
• The progressive in Romance, as compared with
• English
• Progressive markers in Germanic languages
• Progressive aspect in Baltic Finnic
• The absentive
• Case Studies
• Some typological features of the viewpoint and
• tense system in spoken North-Western Karaim
• Aspect in Maltese
• Backmatter