The paper discusses verbal markers of the past tense with a meaning roughly charac-terizable as past and not present or past with no present relevance...
Keywords: aspect, tense, past, pluperfect
04/2006 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagIn response to Verstraete (2005), where the focus was on non-Pama-Nyungan Australian languages, attention is drawn to the wider crosslinguistic spread of the composite expression of counterfactuality, and to relevant previous work...
Keywords: categories, counterfactual, habitual, irrealis, mood, tense
07/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterGreek has always been assumed to possess a verbal system organized on the basis of aspect, with tense playing only a secondary part, and to have retained this state of affairs throughout its history...
Keywords: tense, aspect, verbal system, Aktionsart, perfectivity
01/2008 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag