The Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb

Meaning and Use
Approx. 250 Pp. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21429-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 236 g

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory

In the Modern Mongolian language there are four verb forms which have traditionally been labelled as past tense markers, differing primarily in aspect. In the last two decades scholars have suspected that the past tenses endings may actually differ by marking evidentiality and inferentiality. The present study not only confirms this, but, using 350 glossed and analyzed examples drawn from a variety of sources, shows distinctions of degrees of remoteness as well, and details significant differences between the spoken and written languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Binnick, Robert I.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Robert I. Binnick, PhD (1969) in Linguistics, University of Chicago, is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He is a former Vice-President of the Mongolia Society and has published extensively on both Mongolian and tense/aspect.