Format:
Online-Ressource (278 p)
ISBN:
9783110199031
Series Statement:
The expression of cognitive categories 3
Content:
Time is the most fundamental category of human cognition and action, and all human languages have developed many devices to express it. These include verbal categories, such as tense and aspect, but also adverbials, particles, and principles of discourse organisation. This book is intended as a tutorial for the study of how time is expressed in natural languages. Its chapters take the reader through a number of foundational issues, such as the various notions of time and the various means to express it; other chapters are devoted to more specific questions, such as the acquisition of time, its
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110195811
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110195828
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The expression of time Berlin [u.a.] : Mouton de Gruyter, 2009 ISBN 311019581X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110195828
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110195811
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Temporalität
;
Zeit
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110199031
URL:
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