{"product_id":"telicity-and-durativity-andrea-luise-wilhelm-9780415542289","title":"Telicity and Durativity: A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of natural language. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe study of events, and of event characteristics, is an important testing ground for theories on the boundary between extralinguistic and linguistic knowledge, and on the relation between semantics and syntax. Telicity and durativity are notions which have become increasingly influential in both the semantic and the syntactic, i.e., grammaticalized, representation of events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book furthers the understanding of events through the comparison of two genetically and typologically distinct languages, German and Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan\/Athapaskan), an indigenous language of Northwestern Canada. It contains the first in-depth documentation of the aspectual system of Dëne Suliné, and a careful analysis of the aspectual behaviour of German particle verbs. A stringent methodology considers semantic, pragmatic, and grammatical factors in both languages. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe data reveal that telicity and durativity belong to profoundly different semantic and grammatical domains, and that neither notion is grammaticalized universally. While both notions are represented semantically in German as well as in Dëne Suliné, telicity is grammaticalized only in the former and durativity is grammaticalized only in the latter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrea Luise Wilhelm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415542286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415542289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d","brand":"Andrea Luise Wilhelm","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48483488137471,"sku":"9780415542289","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a1c8a15-5c0a-471a-92f1-69cbf46397e0.jpg?v=1778038958","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/telicity-and-durativity-andrea-luise-wilhelm-9780415542289","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}