المرجع الالكتروني للمعلوماتية
المرجع الألكتروني للمعلوماتية

English Language
عدد المواضيع في هذا القسم 6105 موضوعاً
Grammar
Linguistics
Reading Comprehension

Untitled Document
أبحث عن شيء أخر
تنفيذ وتقييم خطة إعادة الهيكلة (إعداد خطة إعادة الهيكلة1)
2024-11-05
مـعاييـر تحـسيـن الإنـتاجـيـة
2024-11-05
نـسـب الإنـتاجـيـة والغـرض مـنها
2024-11-05
المـقيـاس الكـلـي للإنتاجـيـة
2024-11-05
الإدارة بـمؤشـرات الإنـتاجـيـة (مـبادئ الإنـتـاجـيـة)
2024-11-05
زكاة الفطرة
2024-11-05

وجوه الخيانة
2023-07-27
Helmstetter Cooper Model
20-7-2018
محطات قياس التصريف المائي
8-1-2016
Cycloclasticus
13-10-2016
Stress, tone and intonation
2024-07-03
التكاثر الجنسي ( بالبذرة ) لنخيل التمر
12-1-2016

Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty Introduction  
  
277   08:29 صباحاً   date: 2024-01-19
Author : P. John McWhorter
Book or Source : The Story of Human Language
Page and Part : 47-23


Read More
Date: 2024-01-13 262
Date: 3-3-2022 341
Date: 2024-01-12 273

Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty Introduction

A. A central aspect of how languages and dialects develop through time is that all of them are replete with features that, in the strict sense, they do not need. This is important to realize not only for the sheer wonder of it, but also because an awareness of it sheds insight on how languages’ structure is determined in part by their history.

 

B. For example, the have-perfect is not only rare across languages but unnecessary. The perfect merely implies that something that happened in the past is still relevant in the present, and a great many languages leave that semantic shade to context. When Dorn at the end of Chekhov’s The Seagull says, “Konstantin Gavrilovich has shot himself,” in Russian, it simply translates as “Konstantin Gavrilovich shot himself”—that the event has ongoing implications is quite clear from context.