Aspect and meaning in Slavic and Indic /
Three features set this book apart from other recent publications on aspect. First, it looks closely at the language family, Slavic, that has been the main source of assumptions and data about aspect. Second, it looks upon the object of linguistic study, natural language, from an angle shared by thi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
©1988.
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| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 51. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Three features set this book apart from other recent publications on aspect. First, it looks closely at the language family, Slavic, that has been the main source of assumptions and data about aspect. Second, it looks upon the object of linguistic study, natural language, from an angle shared by thinkers on language whose prominence is still outside linguistics: Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, and Derrida. Third, the exploratory and contrastive account of aspect in Indic, chiefly in Bengali, which will no doubt evoke reactions from experts in these languages. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 137 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-131) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027278555 9027278555 1283313723 9781283313728 9786613313720 6613313726 |
| ISSN: | 0304-0763 ; |
