<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Dear all,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">I hope this email finds you well.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">I have been looking at many sources of Dravidian languages because I am exploring whether speakers of these languages express 'when' relations by means of a correlative pattern (e.g. 'which-time..............that-time'). The only language I came across with this pattern is <span style="line-height:107%">Tamil. This language has a correlative construction, where the
correlative clause appears with the generic temporal noun meaning 'time' and the correlate clause occurs with the same generic
temporal noun </span><span style="line-height:107%"> </span><span style="line-height:107%">(Lehmann
1993: 351).</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="line-height:107%"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="line-height:107%">Note that many Dravidian sources provide descriptions of other types of correlative patterns (e.g. 'which-place......that-place'; 'which-way........that-way'). However, besides Tamil, I have not come across any sources providing a description of the temporal correlative </span></font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">pattern (e.g. 'which-time..............that-time').</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Any sources will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. </span></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></div>