Chapter 18: Tense and Aspect in Modern Germanic

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Authors' Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. List of Abbreviations xi
5. Chapter 1: Tense and Aspect 1
6. Section A: Languages with the original three-aspect system
7. Chapter 2: The Verbal System of Ancient Greek 24
8. Chapter 3: The Verbal System of Vedic and Classical Sanskrit 46
9. Section B: Languages with the original present - aorist system and innovative perfect
10. Chapter 4: The Verbal System of Classical Armenian 67
11. Chapter 5: The Verbal System of Old Church Slavic 82
12. Chapter 6: The Verbal System of Albanian 103
13. Chapter 7: The Verbal System of Tocharian 125
14. Section C: Languages with a three-tense system
15. Chapter 8: Tense and Aspect in Baltic 142
16. Chapter 9: Tense and Aspect in Celtic 165
17. Chapter 10: The Latin Verbal System 189
18. Section D: Languages which merged the original aorist and perfect into the preterit
19. Chapter 11: The Verbal System of Germanic (Gothic, Old English) 209
20. Chapter 12: The Verbal System of Anatolian (Hittite) 229
21. Section E: Later Developments
22. Chapter 13: From Ancient to Modern Greek 249
23. Chapter 14: Development of Modern Indic Tense-Aspect System 265
24. Chapter 15: Development of Modern Slavic Tense-Aspect System 283
25. Chapter 16: Development of Modern Iranian Tense-Aspect System 304
26. Chapter 17: From Latin to Modern Romance 314
27. Chapter 18: Tense and Aspect in Modern Germanic 331
28. Chapter 19: Conclusions 351
29. Appendices 365
30. References 374
31. Indexes 390