Dr comrie draws his examples particularly from english and the slavonic and romance languages, but also from arabic, chinese, welsh, greek and. In this textbook he introduces readers to the range of variation found in tense systems across the languages of the world, bringing together a rich collection of illustrative material. This book describes the most interesting features of over fifty of the worlds major. Languages of the world department of computer science. Verbs of motion and obligatory arguments, workshop on thematic roles in linguistic theory and language acquisition, university of kansas.
His own work on aspect has been a major inspiration for this study. The project1 is a pilot corpus, which will be put online for the community at the end of 2010. We will be primarily concerned with the distinction between dynamic which includes accomplishment and achievement verbs in. Approaches to the typology of word classes edited by petra m. Lin 3010, graduate standing or permission by instructor. The term aspect designates the perspective taken on the internal temporal organisation of the situation, and so aspects distinguish different ways of viewing the internal temporal constituency of the same situation comrie 1976. Hyman form and substance in language universals 67 bernard comrie. An overview aspect is concerned with the way events relate to time.
Department of linguistics university of california, santa barbara santa barbara, ca 931063100, usa. He is the author of many publications including aspect and tense, and is editor of studies in language. We here use this term in a fairly narrow sense to refer to the temporal composition, or the completion, of an event see comrie 1976. This book has been quite influential as a standard reference work. Abbreviations for interlinear morpheme translation imt the abbreviations given below were adopted by the framework for descriptive grammars project bernard comrie, william croft, christian lehmann, dietmar zaefferer in 1991, and subsequently adopted with some modifications by the european typology project. Linguistic society of america meeting, new orleans.
Geert booij 1989, on the representation of diphthongs in frisian. He also provides a sketchy discussion of other works relating to bantu languages p. Other material can be found at the library and will be posted by instructor on canvas. A comprehensive treatment of all the slavonic languages, this volume is written by experts in the field, and details the morphology, lexis and syntax, as well as the sociolinguistic profile of. Some aspects of english poetry tenses are verb forms that relate the situation of an action in time relative to some other time, usually the present moment past, present, future. Bernard comrie defines tense as the grammaticalisation of location in time.
Memorandum of professors of linguistics as amici curiae in. Max planck institute for evolutionary anthropology deutscher platz 6 d04103 leipzig, germany. While 1 make no attempt to hide its speculative nature, i believe that we do now have available to us empirical material that bears on tlie question i address and that can serve at least to narrow down tlie range of. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect, the morphology and the semantics of aspect, and structuralist and philosophical approaches. Here i must acknowledge my dependence on and debt to bernard comrie s book on aspect, the standard work on the subject.
Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology and linguistic universals, and on caucasian languages. I am honored to be included in the celebration of bernard comries distinguished career. See bernard comrie, tense, cambridge textbooks in linguistics, ed. Geert booij 1990, kritische kijk op westers wonder, onze taal 59, juni 1990, 111. Summer institute of linguistics and the university of texas at arlington publications in linguistics publication 99. Click download or read online button to get aspect book now. Universals and variation in spatial referencing comrie1. Summer institute of linguistics and the university of texas at. Tense bernard comrie, professor of linguistics bernard. Anyone who feels dissatisfied with this is referred to bernard comrie s excellent books in the cambridge textbooks in linguistics series see the bibliography. An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems. The hr aspectual system is distinct from the baseline. Download pdf tense free online new books in politics. First, i am going to talk about aspect rather than tense.
The slavonic languages by bernard comrie,greville g. General papers the tense aspect systems of european languages in a typological perspective viewpoint operators in european languages aspect vs. His publications include aspect 1976, the russian language since the revolution with gerald stone, 1978, language universais and linguistic typology 1981, languages of the soviet union 1981 and tense 1985. The world atlas of language structures is a book and cd combination displaying the structural properties of the worlds languages. Free download program bernard comrie aspect lovelyfilecloud. Bernard comrie the overall structure of this book is very similar to aspect. Some reflections on perfect and passive published on 20 dec 1981 by brill. Summer institute of linguistics and the university of texas at arlington publications in linguistics, 99. The world atlas of language structures martin haspelmath. It is argued that this aspect has two main values, habitual and continuous, and that t. When i started working on incomplete acquisition about ten years ago, bernard was one of the few people who was always willing to hear about the unseemly quirks of heritage languages. Bernard comrie curriculum vitae max planck society. Introduction mainland southeast asia is often cited as one of the best, if not the best, examples of a linguistic area, i.
Dr comrie draws his examples particularly from english and the slavonic and romance languages, but also from arabic, chinese, welsh, greek and a variety of others. A grammar of malayalam 3 from the 1960s researchers in modern linguistics have published in many journals pertinent analyses on various aspects of malayalam grammar. Alignment typology, reflexives, and reciprocals in tsezic languages. Bernard comrie is chair of the department of linguistics at the university of southern california. Textbooks available at the reitz union bookstore, tel. As for his own theoretical premises, he is rather eclectic, freely reinterpreting suggestions by bernard comrie and as far as the actional,i.
Brian butterworth, bernard comrie, and osten dahl introduction 1 janet dean fodor constraints on gaps. Bernard comrie department of linguistics uc santa barbara. This is the first study of aspect, considered as a general linguistic phenomenon. Grammatical and lexical comparison of the greater ruvu bantu.
Johnson a senior thesis submitted in partial fulfillment. It is intended for students of individual languages as well as for students of linguistics. Study guide suggested readings and selected answers for the research tasks after each chapter of the study of language 3rd edition cambridge university press chapter 1 p. In this textbook he introduces readers to the range of variation found in tense systems across the languages of the world, bringing together a rich collection of illustrative material that student and specialist alike will find invaluable. For this reason, relatively limited attention will be paid to explaining basic concepts and surveying earlier work. Why they should be kept apart get access to full text the. Paper presented at the semantics of african, asian, and austronesian languages triple a 5, 2729 june 2018, konstanz, 2018.
For a studentoriented discussion of mood in english, see rodney. Bernard comrie, stephen anderson tense and aspect in eight languages of cameroon. In addition, some linguists would argue that while there are various ways in which the english language allows us to refer to a future time, the language does not, strictly speaking, have a grammatical category that can be described as a future tense. An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems cambridge textbooks in linguistics, by the same author, and thats exactly why i think it is a great textbook. Aspect in the koine greek verbal system, accepted and debated areas of research christopher h. There are no submission charges and no article processing charges as these are fully funded by institutions through knowledge unlatched, resulting in no direct charge to authors.
A modern fullfledged grammar of malayalam was however, not attempted until 1997 when asher and kumari. Approaches to the typology of word classes au pure. Harvard university this paper presents and analyzes the encoding of aspect in heritage russian hr, an incompletely acquired language spoken by those for whom another language became dominant at an early age. For the years 20182020 all articles in journal of language contact are published as full open access articles. The first comprehensive, systematic study of bantu morphosyntactic microvariation is marten et al. As linguistic understanding of these universal categories increases, the way is opened up to ree valuate past work on the biblical hebrew verb, and to make new discoveries about the system.
There is frequently a twoterm system of perfective the event is regarded as a whole, without regard for its temporal composition and imperfective focussing on the temporal composition of the event. Grammatical and lexical comparison 5 7 have been chosen as examples, and these will be discussed in detail. Publication date 1990 topics swahili grammar, swh publisher. C6 415 7544577 isbn 0521211093 hardback isbn 0 521 290457 paperback transferred to digital reprinting 2001 printed in. Tense and aspect in eight languages of cameroon author. Semelfactive verbs include blink, sneeze, and knock. The interest of this survey is increased by the fact that the author pays much attention to the possible c. We will be primarily concerned with the distinction between dynamic which includes accomplishment and achievement verbs in the discussion of creole verb forms and stative verbs. Booij 1989 frisian diphthongs geert booij 1989, complex verbs and the theory of level ordering. Member of threeperson panel with bernard comrie and alice ter meulen.