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The Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb: Meaning and Use
Author(s): Robert I. Binnick (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: November 25, 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 260 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004214291
- ISBN-13: 9789004214293
Book Description
In the Modern Mongolian language there are four verb forms which have traditionally been labelled as past tense markers, differing primarily in aspect. In the last two decades scholars have suspected that the past tenses endings may actually differ by marking evidentiality and inferentiality. The present study not only confirms this, but, using 350 glossed and analyzed examples drawn from a variety of sources, shows distinctions of degrees of remoteness as well, and details significant differences between the spoken and written languages.
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About the Author
Robert I. Binnick, PhD (1969) in Linguistics, University of Chicago, is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He is a former Vice-President of the Mongolia Society and has published extensively on both Mongolian and tense/aspect.
