Aspectuality and temporality : descriptive and theoretical issues /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Studies in Language Companion Series, 0165-7763 ; 172
Studies in language companion series ; 172.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755297
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Other authors / contributors:Guentchéva, Zlatka, editor.
ISBN:9789027267610
9027267618
9789027259370
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This volume brings together a collection of articles exploring tense and aspect phenomena in a variety of non-related languages: Indo-European (Albanian, Bulgarian, Armenian, English, Norwegian, Hindi), Hamito-Semitic (Berber, Zenaga Berber, Arabic varieties, Neo-Aramaic), African (Wolof, Langi), Asian (Badaga, Korean, Mongolian languages - Khalkha, Buriat, Kalmuck - Thaï, Tibetic languages), Amerindian (Yucatec Maya, Sikuani), Greenlandic (Eskimo) and Oceanian (Nêlêmwa). Each article is grounded in solid empirical knowledge. It offers an in-depth study of aspectual and temporal devices as man.
Other form:Print version: Aspectuality and temporality. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016] 9789027259370