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The Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb: Meaning and Use by Robert L. Binnick (review)

The Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb: Meaning and Use by Robert L. Binnick (review) 2013 BOOK REVIEWS 101 The Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb: Meaning and Use. ROBERT L. BINNICK. Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory 1. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxii + 236. $129.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by György Kara, Indiana University and ELTE University of Budapest This is the first volume of a new Brill series, “Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory,” edited by Brian D. Joseph of Ohio State University and his international team. The editors “expect that each volume will advance our knowledge of how human lan- guage works through solid theoretically sophisticated description and through empirical testing of theoretical constructs and claims” (p. ix). The Mongolic languages of the past and present show a considerable variety of devices to indicate the relation of an event or state to time, and the speaker’s or writer’s judgment on the nature of this relation. The system of Modern Khalkha Mongolian was first described and analyzed by G. J. Ramstedt in his classic Über die Konjugation des Khalkha-Mongolischen (1903). For him, aspect (perfect, or imperfect) was the primary; tense (present, past, future) was the secondary organizing principle of the indicative finite forms, but, aware of the fact that these forms do not represent objective http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

The Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb: Meaning and Use by Robert L. Binnick (review)

Kara, György.
Anthropological Linguistics , Volume 55 (1) – Dec 8, 2013
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2013 BOOK REVIEWS 101 The Past Tenses of the Mongolian Verb: Meaning and Use. ROBERT L. BINNICK. Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory 1. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxii + 236. $129.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by György Kara, Indiana University and ELTE University of Budapest This is the first volume of a new Brill series, “Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory,” edited by Brian D. Joseph of Ohio State University and his international team. The editors “expect that each volume will advance our knowledge of how human lan- guage works through solid theoretically sophisticated description and through empirical testing of theoretical constructs and claims” (p. ix). The Mongolic languages of the past and present show a considerable variety of devices to indicate the relation of an event or state to time, and the speaker’s or writer’s judgment on the nature of this relation. The system of Modern Khalkha Mongolian was first described and analyzed by G. J. Ramstedt in his classic Über die Konjugation des Khalkha-Mongolischen (1903). For him, aspect (perfect, or imperfect) was the primary; tense (present, past, future) was the secondary organizing principle of the indicative finite forms, but, aware of the fact that these forms do not represent objective

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