The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World by Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca

The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World



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The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World Joan Bybee, Revere Perkins, William Pagliuca ebook
Page: 398
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226086658, 9780226086651


To get more on the evolution of tense, modality and aspect, check out Bybee et al.'s The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Each section starts with an explanation and examples, followed by exercises. Ultimately Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World (Human Cognitive Proces . Modality in grammar and discourse. For example, the evolution of the grammatical gender system in Indic languages indicates that Romani must have been spoken in India around 1000 CE. Bybee, Joan; Perkins, Revere, & Pagliuca, William. Frank Brisard English | 2011 | PDF | 328 pages | ISBN: 9027223831 | 3 MB Cognitive Approaches to Tense, A. Bybee, John L., William Pagliuca, and Revere Perkins 1991 The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Language of the World. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. The explanations Following the grammar sections there are 15 vocabulary units linked to various topics, with technology, the mind and history being just a few examples. The first 40 units deal with different aspects of grammar with three to four pages dedicated to each aspect such as the various tenses, articles, and modal verbs. Magadhi Prakrit, the earliest recorded spoken language in the region and the language of the Buddha, had evolved into Ardhamagadhi ("Half Magadhi") in the early part of the first millennium C.E. Ardhamagadhi, as with all of the Prakrits of North India, began to give way to what are called Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian, wrote a modern Bengali grammar A Grammar of the Bengal Language (1778), that used Bengali types in print for the first time. The volume also represents one of the first attempts to gather accounts of TA marking (in various languages) that are explicitly set within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Languages of the World. Matras, Yaron (2001) Tense, aspect, and modality categories in Romani. Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality Adeline Patard, Dr.

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