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- Turkic
- Cambridge Language Surveys
- Turkic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Technicalities
- 3 The Turkic Language Family
- 4 Turcia, the Turkic World
- 5 Status
- 6 Historical Backgrounds
- 7 Cultures
- 8 Linguistic Periodizations
- 9 Registers of Orature and Literature
- 10 Language Contacts
- 11 Lexicon
- 12 Sound Types
- 13 Prime Syllables
- 14 Phonemes in Prime Syllables
- 15 Polysyllabic Word Forms
- 16 Diachronic Phonology
- 17 Diachrony: Vowels
- 18 Diachrony: Consonants
- 19 Writing Systems
- 20 Morphology: Generalities
- 21 Nominals: Nouns
- 22 Nominals: Noun Inflection
- 23 Nominals: Adjectives
- 24 Nominals: Pronominals
- 25 Quantifiers and Numerals
- 26 Postpositions
- 27 Copular Devices
- 28 Verb Stems
- 29 Postverbial Constructions
- 30 Finite Verbals
- 31 Verbals: Viewpoint Aspect
- 32 Old Intraterminals: Aorists
- 33 Focal Intraterminals
- 34 Postterminals
- 35 Terminals
- 36 Imperatives
- 37 Modality
- 38 Voluntatives
- 39 Optatives
- 40 Hypotheticals
- 41 Further Modals
- 42 Copular Particles of Thematic Bases
- 43 Nonfinite Verbals
- 44 Participant Nominals
- 45 Action Nominals
- 46 Converbs
- 47 Adverbs
- 48 Function Words
- 49 Interjections
- 50 Word Accents
- 51 Syntactic Levels
- 52 Nominal Phrases
- 53 Verbal Phrases
- 54 Main Clauses
- 55 Nonmain Clauses
- 56 Sentences
- 57 Above the Sentence Level
- 58 Prosody
- 59 Functional Synopses
- References
- Index of linguistics and historical backgrounds
- Index of languages and dialects
- Index of subjects
31 - Verbals: Viewpoint Aspect
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
- Turkic
- Cambridge Language Surveys
- Turkic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Technicalities
- 3 The Turkic Language Family
- 4 Turcia, the Turkic World
- 5 Status
- 6 Historical Backgrounds
- 7 Cultures
- 8 Linguistic Periodizations
- 9 Registers of Orature and Literature
- 10 Language Contacts
- 11 Lexicon
- 12 Sound Types
- 13 Prime Syllables
- 14 Phonemes in Prime Syllables
- 15 Polysyllabic Word Forms
- 16 Diachronic Phonology
- 17 Diachrony: Vowels
- 18 Diachrony: Consonants
- 19 Writing Systems
- 20 Morphology: Generalities
- 21 Nominals: Nouns
- 22 Nominals: Noun Inflection
- 23 Nominals: Adjectives
- 24 Nominals: Pronominals
- 25 Quantifiers and Numerals
- 26 Postpositions
- 27 Copular Devices
- 28 Verb Stems
- 29 Postverbial Constructions
- 30 Finite Verbals
- 31 Verbals: Viewpoint Aspect
- 32 Old Intraterminals: Aorists
- 33 Focal Intraterminals
- 34 Postterminals
- 35 Terminals
- 36 Imperatives
- 37 Modality
- 38 Voluntatives
- 39 Optatives
- 40 Hypotheticals
- 41 Further Modals
- 42 Copular Particles of Thematic Bases
- 43 Nonfinite Verbals
- 44 Participant Nominals
- 45 Action Nominals
- 46 Converbs
- 47 Adverbs
- 48 Function Words
- 49 Interjections
- 50 Word Accents
- 51 Syntactic Levels
- 52 Nominal Phrases
- 53 Verbal Phrases
- 54 Main Clauses
- 55 Nonmain Clauses
- 56 Sentences
- 57 Above the Sentence Level
- 58 Prosody
- 59 Functional Synopses
- References
- Index of linguistics and historical backgrounds
- Index of languages and dialects
- Index of subjects
Summary
Turkic possesses a number of grammaticalized viewpoint aspect categories. They do not characterize the actional content but express perspectives on events, offering different ways of envisaging them with respect to their outer limits from various points of view (orientation points, vantage points).
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- Turkic , pp. 624 - 626Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021