English, french, mandarin chinese, navajo and russian. Bernard comrie studied modern and medieval languages and linguistics at the university of cambridge, taking his ph. Sprachwissenschaftsprachwissenschaft wien 242 1978 12943. The perfective aspect is distinguished from the imperfective aspect, which presents an event as having internal structure such as ongoing, continuous, or habitual actions. See all 9 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Bernard comries excellent books in the cambridge textbooks in. I am honored to be included in the celebration of bernard comrie s distinguished career.
Bernard comrie this was the first book ive ever read thoroughly on verbal aspect, and its crystal clear definitions are very easy to follow. Its not a simple introduction to aspect, but its not an extremely detailed account either. Free download program bernard comrie aspect lovelyfilecloud. Aspect an introduction to the general linguistic study of aspect. Bernard comrie s most popular book is the worlds major languages. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect, the morphology and the semantics of aspect, and. When i started working on incomplete acquisition about ten years ago, bernard was one of the few people who was always willing to hear about the unseemly quirks of heritage languages. It carefully talks about the meaning of aspect, the perfectiveimperfective distinction, and pretty much everything you might want to know about this topic such as related morphology and combined tense. Datasets available include lcsh, bibframe, lc name authorities, lc classification, marc codes, premis vocabularies, iso language codes, and more. It is intended for students of individual languages as well as for students of linguistics. Bernard comrie aspect an introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems cambridge textbooks in linguistics handbook of morphology.
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An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems cambridge textbooks in l first edition. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. The origin and development of languages throughout the world by bernard comrie. An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems cambridge textbooks in linguistics. His own work on aspect has been a major inspiration for this study. An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems cambridge textbooks in l first edition on. An introduction to the general linguistic study of aspect. The language about temporality and time with reference to the verbal system is problematic for those who have rejected the. On the introduction from the perspective of whats been said in koine greek grammar, two points could be made. Contact the aspect customer care web team for assistance. Bernard comrie department of linguistics uc santa barbara. Its a quick read, but i do feel it kind of falls inbetween two chairs. Tense and aspect in eight languages of cameroon sil international. Tense and aspect in eight languages of cameroon summer institute of linguistics and the university of texas at arlington publications in linguistics.
Cambridge textbooks in linguistics, cambridge university press, cambridre etc. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect, the morphology and the semantics of aspect, and structuralist and philosophical approaches. Progressive aspect in nigerian english ulrike gut, robert fuchs. An overview aspect is concerned with the way events relate to time. An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems paperback jun 3 1976. Dr comrie draws his examples particularly from english and the slavonic and romance languages, but also from arabic, chinese, welsh, greek and. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect, the morphology and the semantics of aspect. It provides an unusual combination of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic approaches to a single domain, and gives detailed linguistic analyses of five languages with very different aspectual systems. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. C6 415 7544577 isbn 0521211093 hardback isbn 0 521 290457 paperback transferred to digital reprinting 2001 printed in. Using software that displays frames per second, gesture stroke onset and. An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems.
System 1022 is a general purpose data management software system which. Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology and linguistic universals, and on caucasian languages. Bernard comrie books list of books by author bernard comrie. Chapter alignment of case marking of full noun phrases. Bernard comrie is director of the department of linguistics at the max planck institute for evolutionary anthropology, leipzig, and distinguished professor of linguistics at the university of california santa barbara.
An introduction to verbal aspect as a general linguistic phenomenon, with exa. This is the first study of aspect, considered as a general linguistic phenomenon. Since its first publication, language universals and linguistic typology has become established as the leading introductory account of one of the most productive areas of linguisticsthe analysis, comparison, and classification of the common features and forms of the organization of languages. June 1975 bernard comrie preface to the second printing in addition to removing a few misprints, i have corrected an error in the discussion of. The parameter of aspect presents a unified theory of aspect within universal grammar. An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems cambridge textbooks in linguistics 9780521290456.
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