Time, Tense and Aspect in Early Vedic Grammar: Exploring Inflectional Semantics in the Rigveda - Couverture rigide

Dahl, Eystein

 
9789004178144: Time, Tense and Aspect in Early Vedic Grammar: Exploring Inflectional Semantics in the Rigveda
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ISBN 10 : 9004178147 ISBN 13 : 9789004178144
Editeur : Brill, 2010

Synopsis

This book takes a fresh look at the relationship between aspect, tense and mood in Early Vedic, the language of the Rigveda. Although numerous studies have examined the functional range of individual verbal categories in this language, this work is the first attempt to approach this problem from an overall, systemic perspective. With insights from formal semantics and linguistic typology, the author demonstrates that aspect represents a grammatically relevant semantic dimension on a par with tense in the Early Vedic verbal system, thereby indicating that the language has preserved an aspectual opposition similar to the one found in Homeric Greek. Apart from these general findings, the book provides a theoretical framework designed for exploring inflectional semantics in dead languages.

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À propos de l?auteur

Eystein Dahl, Ph.D. (2008) in Linguistics, University of Oslo, is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bergen. He has published several articles on various aspects of Vedic and Indo-European semantics, syntax and morphology.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004178147
ISBN 13 
9789004178144
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
496
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Personne responsable
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