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Anatomy of the Verb: The Gothic Verb as a Model for a Unified Theory of Aspect, Actional Types, and Verbal Velocity

By Albert L. Lloyd

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1979
ISBN
902723003X, 9789027230034
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25256823 bytes)
Series
Studies in Language Companion Series 4
Pages
361\361
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Time added
2015-01-10 02:20:33
Языки и языкознание;Готский язык

Description

The continuing debate over the existence or non-existence of formal verbal aspect in Gothic triggered the author to write this monograph whose aim is to provide a completely new foundation for a theory of aspect and related features. Gothic, with its limited corpus, representing a translation of the Greek, and showing interesting parallels with Slavic verbal constructions, serves and an illustrative model for the theory. In Part I the author argues that a unified theory of aspect, actional types, and verbal velocity presented there possesses an internal logic and is not at variance with observed facts in various Indo-European languages. In Part II an analysis is presented of the Gothic verb system which seeks to explain the much-disputed function of ga- and to solve the problem of Gothic aspect and actional types which does no violence either to the Gothic text or the Greek original.

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