Aspect in the Languages of Europe — Lars Johanson

This volume deals with the typology of verbal aspect in the languages of Europe in a wide geographic sense stretching from the Ural Mountains and the Caucasus to the western periphery European languages include representatives of the Indo European language family several Turkic and Finno Ugric languages the Mongolic language Kalmyk the Semitic language Maltese the languages of the Caucasia and Basque without relatives These European languages show remarkably similar aspect types which are described in Lars Johanson s insightful typological framework originally applied for the description of the Turkish verbal system The volume contains a comprehensive list of Lars Johanson s publications on aspect with special focus on Turkic languages

This volume deals with the typology of verbal aspect in the languages of Europe in a wide geographic sense stretching from the Ural Mountains and the Caucasus to the western periphery European languages include representatives of the Indo European language family several Turkic and Finno Ugric languages the Mongolic language Kalmyk the Semitic language Maltese the languages of the Caucasia and Basque without relatives These European languages show remarkably similar aspect types which are described in Lars Johanson s insightful typological framework originally applied for the description of the Turkish verbal system The volume contains a comprehensive list of Lars Johanson s publications on aspect with special focus on Turkic languages