[B-Greek] Event words

Wayne Leman wayne_leman at sil.org
Mon Aug 29 11:50:41 EDT 2005


Carl, here's a good intro on the Internet:

http://www.indiana.edu/~hlw/Sentences/situations.html

Some other articles on the Internet some with a fair amount of linguistic 
jargon which may be off-putting for those who come from other disciplines:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2342/is_1_38/ai_n13504342#continue

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:__4ljoQz-TAJ:www.stanford.edu/~andrewkg/yom.rev.pdf+events+states+givon&hl=en

a bibliography:
http://www.scar.utoronto.ca/~binnick/TENSE/Events.html

The functionalist linguist T.Givon should have a fair amount on events
vs. states. The difference affects not only verbs but nouns as well.

Here is his introductory book which should be of help in this area:

Syntax: A Functional Typological Introduction (Paperback)
amazon.com http:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1556190972/qid=1125329676/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-0011676-3567106?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Wayne
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at ioa.com>


Are there (in descriptive linguistics) regular categories for items
such as this? It seems to me that verbal nouns (e.g. PAROUSIA) must
often fall into this category of "event words"; we don't have a
gerund in Greek as such but we do have the articular infinitive,
verbal nouns in -SIS/-TIS like PRAXIS, which can sometimes refer to a
process in progress. Who has discussed this sort of thing and where
might I best read more about matters such as this?




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