<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style="">Dear all,<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">I hope this email finds you well.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style="">I send you this message because in my sample there are a couple of African languages (e.g. Tommo So and Bangime) that <span style="color:black;text-align:justify">have
a narrative construction in which the </span><i style="color:black;text-align:justify">until</i><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">-clause appears with a verb
meaning ‘to get tired’ (e.g. <i>I worked I worked until I get tired</i>). </span><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">Note that this clause does not necessarily denote
literal weariness or physical fatigue. Instead, this construction is used in
contexts where speakers express that they carried out an activity for a very
long time (e.g. <i>I worked I worked for a very long time</i>). In this type of construction, </span><span style="color:black;text-align:justify"> the first clause in linear order denotes a prolonged
activity and is followed by a clause meaning ‘until I got tired’ emphasizing
the extreme prolongation of the first situation. </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><span style="color:black;text-align:justify"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">I was wondering if you know any study that has explored this type of construction or if you know any other African languages that have this type of construction.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="color:black;text-align:justify;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="color:black;text-align:justify;font-family:georgia,serif">Thank you very much in advance.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><span style="color:black;text-align:justify"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">Best,</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font face="AR CENA"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Jesús Olguín Martínez</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="AR CENA">Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Linguistics</font></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="AR CENA"><i>University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)</i></font></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="AR CENA"><a href="http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/jes%C3%BAs-olgu%C3%ADn-mart%C3%ADnez" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/jesús-olguín-martínez</a></font></span></font></div></div></div></div></div>