Time and the Verb: A Guide to Tense and AspectOxford University Press, 20/06/1991 - 584 páginas This comprehensive examination of tense and grammatical aspect provides fascinating insight into how languages indicate distinctions of time. Providing an in-depth survey of the scholarship from the ancient Greeks through the 1980s, Time and the Verb explains and evaluates every major issue and theory, concentrating on familiar Classical and modern European languages. An invaluable reference tool as well as a major contribution to the history of linguistic sciences, this book will be the standard against which future work on tense and aspect is measured. |
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Time and the Verb: A Guide to Tense and Aspect Robert I. Binnick,Robert I Binnick Pré-visualização limitada - 1991 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
action activity adverbials Aktionsarten ambiguous anaphoric aorist Aristotelian Aristotle aspectual auxiliary auxiliary verbs Cascio clause complement completion Comrie context defined definite deictic denotes depends discourse distinction Dowty durative English event example expressions fact function future perfect future tense German grammar grammarians Greek Ibid imperfect indefinite indicative interval Jespersen John John loves Mary Kamp languages Latin linguistic logical marked markedness marker meaning modal mood narrative Nerbonne non-past notion occur optative participle past perfect past tense perfect aspect perfect tenses periphrastic phase pluperfect possible pragmatic present perfect present tense preterite Priscian problem progressive R-point reading reference point Reichenbach relation relative tense Rohrer rules scholars semantic interpretation sentence sequence simple past situation Slavic speaker speech act speech-act structure subevent subjunctive Susan syntactic syntax telic temporal tense and aspect tense forms tion tomorrow tradition translation treatment true truth values unmarked verb writing yesterday
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Página 6 - Interpretation that words spoken are symbols or signs of affections or impressions of the soul; written words are the signs of words spoken.
Página 6 - Words spoken are symbols or signs of affections or impressions of the soul ; written words are the signs of words spoken. As writing, so also is speech not the same for all races of men. But the mental affections themselves, of which these words are primarily signs, are the same for the whole of mankind, as are also the objects of which those affections are representations or likenesses, images, copies.