The past tenses of the Mongolian verb : meaning and use / / by Robert I. Binnick.
In the Modern Mongolian language there are four verb forms which have traditionally been labelled as past tense markers, differing primarily in aspect. In the last two decades scholars have suspected that the past tenses endings may actually differ by marking evidentiality and inferentiality. The pr...
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| Superior document: | Empirical approaches to linguistic theory, v. 1 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ;
v. 1. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- I. The Problem of the Mongolian Past Tenses
- II. Use and Interpretation of the Past Tenses in the Spoken Language
- III. Use and Interpretation of the Past Tenses in the Written Language
- IV. The Discourse Functions of the Tenses
- Remarks in Lieu of a Conclusion
- Appendix
- List of Works Cited
- Index.