Tense, Aspect and Action : : Empirical and Theoretical Contributions to Language Typology / / ed. by Carl Bache, Carl-Erik Lindberg, Hans Basbøll.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Andersen, Torben,; Bache, Carl,; Bergman, Brita,; Bergsland, Knut,; Bertinetto, Pier Marco,; Dahl, Östen,; Dik, Simon C.,; Durst-Andersen, Per,; Egerod, Søren,; Harder, Peter,; Heinämäki, Orvokki,; Kiefer, Ferenc,; Refsing, Kirsten,; Schøsler, Lene,; Svantesson, Jan-Olof,; Vikner, Carl,; Vonen, Arnfinn Muruvik,
• HerausgeberIn: Bache, Carl,; Basbøll, Hans,; Lindberg, Carl-Erik,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

• I-IV
• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction: An overview
• Verbal semantics in Functional Grammar
• Verbal categories, form-meaning relationships and the English perfect
• Verbal time reference in English: Structure and functions
• Russian aspect as different statement models
• Temporal reference, aspect and actionality: Their neutralization and interactions, mostly exemplified in Italian
• Change in homogeneity in verbal and nominal reference
• Did Aktionsart ever “compensate” verbal aspect in Old and Middle French?
• Some peculiarities of the aspectual system in Hungarian
• Aspect as boundedness in Finnish
• From aspect to tense in Lulubo: Morphosyntactic and semantic restructuring in a Central Sudanic language
• Tense, mood and aspect in Kammu
• Aspect in Chinese
• Tense, aspect and actionality in the Ainu language
• Aleut tenses and aspects
• The expression of temporal and aspectual relations in Tokelau narratives
• Ideophones in Sign Language? The place of reduplication in the tense-aspect system of Swedish Sign Language
• Index of Languages
• Index of Names