TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Mucha, Anne
ED  - Chereches, Anca
T1  - Temporal reference in a genuinely tenseless language: The case of Hausa
T2  - Proceedings of the 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT 22), held at University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, May 18 - May 20, 2012
N2  - In this paper, we provide an analysis of temporality in Hausa (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic). By testing the hypothesis of covert tense (Matthewson 2006) against empirical data, we show that Hausa is genuinely tenseless in the sense that the grammar does not restrict the relation between reference time and utterance time. Rather, temporal reference is pragmatically inferred from aspectual and contextual information. We also argue that future time reference in Hausa is realized as a combination of a modal operator and a prospective aspect, thus involving the modal meaning components of intention and prediction as well as event time shifting.
KW  - Temporal Reference
KW  - Modality
KW  - Hausa
KW  - Tenseless Languages
KW  - Hausa
KW  - Tempus
Y1  - 2012
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-54281
SN  - 2163-5951
SS  - 2163-5951
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v22i0.3084
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v22i0.3084
SP  - 188
EP  - 207
PB  - Linguistic Society of America
CY  - Washington, DC
ER  -