Complex aspectual structure in Hindi/Urdu
| Type of Publication: | Journal article |
| Publication status: | Published |
| Author: | Butt, Miriam; Ramchand, Gillian |
| Year of publication: | 2001 |
| Published in: | Oxford University working papers in linguistics, philology and phonetics ; 6 (2001). - pp. 1-30. - ISSN 1473-9356 |
| URL of original publication: | http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/files/owp2001.pdf, Last access on Jan 29, 2018 |
| Summary: |
South Asian languages are well known for possessing a large number of complex verbal constructions containing either a verb, a noun or an adjective as main predicator and a light verb as the part of the construction which carries the tense and agreement morphology. 1 Light verbs in these languages have long intrigued grammar writers (eg, Kellog 1893, Chatterji 1926, McGregor 1968) and linguists, as the contribution of the light verb to the complex construction does not appear to be a purely functional one. This is especially evident with VV sequences (main verb followed by a light verb) where the contribution of the light verb has often been characterized via aspectual terms such as perfectivity (Hook 1991, Singh 1994) or inception/completion (Butt 1995), but also via semantically less well defined terms like forcefulness, suddenness, volitionality, benefaction, etc. The range of meanings …
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| Subject (DDC): | 400 Philology, Linguistics |
| Keywords: | Allgemeine Linguistik |
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BUTT, Miriam, Gillian RAMCHAND, 2001. Complex aspectual structure in Hindi/Urdu. In: Oxford University working papers in linguistics, philology and phonetics. 6, pp. 1-30. ISSN 1473-9356
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