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Development of Tense and Aspect Systems
Edited by Jadranka Gvozdanović
[Benjamins Current Topics 123] 2022
► pp. 179–198

Continuity and change in the aspect systems of Vedic and Latin

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Article outline
  • 1.Introductory remarks
  • 2.Two approaches to aspectual semantics
    • 2.1Aspect as a relation between temporal parameters – A neo-Reichenbachian approach
    • 2.2Aspectual categories as partitive operators – Altshuler (2014)
  • 3.Chronological stages of Vedic and Latin
  • 4.Outline of the Early Vedic aspect system
  • 5.Outline of the Early Latin aspect system
  • 6.Interim summary: The Early Vedic and Early Latin aspectual systems compared
  • 7.The development of the Vedic past tense system according to Dahl (2015)
  • 8.An alternative account of the development of the Vedic past tense system
  • 9.The development of the Latin aspect system in a time-relational perspective
  • 10.An alternative approach to the development of the Latin aspect system
  • 11.Summary
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 4 August 2022
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