Aspect, tense and action in the Arabic dialect of Beirut / / by Stefan Bruweleit.
The linguistic categories of aspect, tense and action are closely interrelated. In the first part of Aspect, Tense and Action in the Arabic dialect of Beirut , Stefan Bruweleit defines the three categories and describes the interplay between them at a metagrammatical level. In the next parts he appl...
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Superior document: | Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume 79 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ;
Volume 79. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 General Reflections on Universal Grammar
- 2 Tense
- 3 Aspect
- 4 Action
- 5 The Categorial Interplay
- 6 Negation
- 7 The Reference Point in Aspectual and Tense Languages
- 8 Introductory Remarks
- 9 Some Remarks on the Phonology and the Verb Forms
- 10 Anteriority to the Speech Time
- 11 Plural Situations
- 12 Simultaneity with a Reference Point in the Past
- 13 Anteriority to a Reference Point in the Past
- 14 Posteriority to a Reference Point in the Past
- 15 The Speech Time
- 16 Extratemporality
- 17 Posteriority to the Speech Time
- 18 Simultaneity with a Reference Point in the Future
- 19 Anteriority to a Reference Point in the Future
- 20 Verbs of Perception
- 21 Circumstantial Clauses
- 22 Conditional Clauses
- 23 Summary Arranged According to Chapter
- 24 Summary Arranged According to Verb Form
- 25 The Oppositions in the Verbal System
- 26 Some Remarks on the Evolution of the Arabic Verbal System
- 27 Aspects or Discussed and Narrated World?
- 28 Substitution Test
- 29 The Results of this Work
- Texts in the Dialect of Beirut
- Bibliography
- Index.