(Un-)restricting tense in awing
- In recent years, formal semantic research on the meaning of tense and aspect has benefited from a number of studies investigating languages with graded tense systems. This paper contributes a first sketch of the temporal marking system of Awing (Grassfields Bantu), focusing on two varieties of remote past and remote future. We argue that the data support a "symmetric" analysis of past and future tense in Awing. In our specific proposal, Awing temporal remoteness markers are uniformly analyzed as quantificational tense operators, and both the past and the future paradigm include a form that prevents contextual restriction of this temporal quantifier.
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| Author: | Anne Mucha, Henry Zamchang Fominyam |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-739346 |
| Handle: | http://10900/73934 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.15496/publikation-15342 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of TripleA 3. Fieldwork perspectives on the semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian languages |
| Publisher: | Universitätsverlag |
| Place of publication: | Tübingen |
| Editor: | Vera Hohaus, Wanda Rothe |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | German |
| Year of first Publication: | 2017 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2017/01/27 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Tag: | Graded Tense; Quantifier Restriction |
| GND Keyword: | Afrikanische Sprachen; Bantu; Feldforschung; Semantik |
| First Page: | 32 |
| Last Page: | 46 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Semantik |
| Program areas: | Grammatik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |