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Expression of Temporal Meaning in Caboverdean (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm])
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Fernanda Pratas, "Expression of Temporal Meaning in Caboverdean (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm]) "
English | ISBN: 3110668246 | 2021 | 300 pages | PDF | 1352 KB
English | ISBN: 3110668246 | 2021 | 300 pages | PDF | 1352 KB
One hot topic in contemporary linguistics concerns how we express the passage of time in natural language. In particular, interesting questions have been raised as to how formerly understudied languages fit into deep-rooted theoretical frameworks, which among other features comprise a grammatical category of tense.
This monograph mainly contributes to this debate in two complementary ways: through a detailed description of a large set of new data from two varieties of Caboverdean, a Portuguese-related language, and through a novel approach to the role of its few temporal morphemes, which allows to better define how tense meanings, aspect, and mood, together with other linguistic and extralinguistic information, provide what we understand as past, present, and future.
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