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Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of
Aspects of Linguistic Variation
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Pages: 255
Authors: Daniël Olmen
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-03 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Linguistic variation is a topic of ongoing interest to the field. Its description and its explanations continue to intrigue scholars from many different backgro
Language Typology and Language Universals 2.Teilband
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This handbook provides a comprehensive and thorough survey of our current insights into the diversity and unity found across the 6000 languages of this planet.
Aspect in Burmese
Language: en
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The book presents an overview of the aspectual system of Burmese, and it focuses on the analysis and description of the meaning and function of some aspectual m
Aspect and the Categorization of States
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In this work, the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values ÃÃplus o