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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Regarding Maybrat, Dol (1999:176,178) provides
examples of what she calls an adverbial marker <i>oh</i>, which seem to have
the function of a iamitive aspectual marker.<span>
</span>(The term <i>iamitive </i>had not yet been introduced when the grammar
was written.)<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Similar iamitive constructions, mostly
periphrastic, are common throughout the Mekong-Mamberamo linguistic area, encompassing
mainland Southeast Asia, the Indonesian archipelago, and parts of western New Guinea
(Gil 2015:362-4).<span> </span>More generally,
although many of the languages of that area tend to be isolating, they typically
have a small number of free forms denoting time and/or state/event structure,
which are often weakly grammaticalized and may thus, under some definitions, qualify
as (perhaps non-prototypical) markers of tense or aspect.<span> </span>But clearly, both tense and aspect play a
substantially lesser role in these languages than in many languages from
other parts of the world.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dol, Philomena (1999) <i>A Grammar of
Maybrat, A Language of the Bird's Head, Irian Jaya, Indonesia</i>, PhD
Dissertation, Leiden University.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-ReferencesT" style="margin:0in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Gil, David
(2015) "The Mekong-Mamberamo Linguistic Area", in N.J. Enfield and B.
Comrie eds., <i>Languages of Mainland
Southeast Asia, The State of the Art</i>, Pacific Linguistics, DeGruyter
Mouton, Berlin, 266-355.</span></p><p class="gmail-ReferencesT" style="margin:0in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span><br></span></span></p><p class="gmail-ReferencesT" style="margin:0in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">David<span></span></span></p>
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great to hear that you're interested! Unfortunately, I haven't published an article on this yet. But parts of the results of the study can be found in Chapter III and the appendix of my thesis. This is the link:</div>
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I should mention, however, that my work hasn't really focused on the relation between tense and aspect as grammatical categories so far. Due to this, and to the size of the sample, I could only take a rather coarse-grained look at the aspectual system of each
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As for your search for a "radically aspect-less" language: I remember Maybrat (isolate, Southwest Papua/Indonesia) as a language with hardly any verbal morphology which I coded as possessing neither tense nor aspect. So, this might be a potential candidate. </div>
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<p><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Dear Tom – Have you published that study yet? I’d be super-interested in the details.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">My own observations align with your findings, with one qualification: If we allow *<b>degrees</b>* of aspect-lessness/tense-lessness to enter into consideration, my hunch is that we will find fewer
languages that are *<b>completely</b>* without any (however optional) morphosyntactic constraints on viewpoint aspect interpretation than languages that are without any morphosyntactic constraints on tense interpretation (i.e., on interpretating the relation
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<p><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">I have not actually seen a language that would be entirely free of morphosyntactic constraints on viewpoint aspectual interpretation. Even Finnish and German, the languages commonly cited as lacking
grammaticalized viewpoint aspect markers, have a perfect form (which in German is most commonly used to express past reference, but retains polysemy as a post-state/time marker). Colloquial German in addition has a weakly grammaticalized progressive construction
for atelic VPs. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">I’d be very interested in examples of “radically aspect-less” languages if they exist!</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I would say that what Jürgen has stated for aspectual reference (meaning) and aspect (form) most probably also goes for temporal reference and tense:
any utterance in any language will involve reference to a certain time span the speaker wishes to convey, but not all languages have tense as a
<i>grammatical</i> category (and additionally, the number of distinctions within that category may vary from language to language, as is also the case for aspect). </span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">In a study on 180 languages I conducted rather recently, I found all four logical possibilities in terms of the (non-) presence of tense and aspect as
grammatical categories: <b>A.</b> languages that have both tense and aspect, <b>
B.</b> languages that only have tense, <b>C.</b> languages that only have aspect, and
<b>D.</b> languages that have neither tense nor aspect.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">So, cross-linguistically, it seems that languages like Chinese and Yucatec Maya are as common as languages like German (more or less).</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Two other languages without tense are Konomala and Siar, two Oceanic languages of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. The languages only distinguish
realis vs. irrealis and have a couple of aspect markers. Tense is inferred pragmatically. The same might have been true for Proto Oceanic.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in">Not just Chinese (i.e. Mandarin), but most of Sinitic and Sino-Tibetan “encodes only aspectual meanings, with tense always inferred pragmatically as an implicature .”</p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in">Maybe Chinese is not the best example in terms of coding aspects but not tenses but it comes quite close. </p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thanks you for your message! Indeed, German is well known for lacking grammatical aspect. But are there languages whose verbal morphology (along
with productive periphrastic constructions) encodes only aspectual meanings, with tense always inferred pragmatically as an implicature?</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in">you may wish to specify your question. First of all, there are languages without any aspect at all, e.g. German. Second, there are languages with more than two aspects at the same morphological level, e.g.
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please allow me a naïve question: do we believe in a one-feature binary opposition of “perfective” vs. “imperfective” aspect in languages that, unlike English (e.g., yesterday he wrote ~ yesterday he was writing)
or Spanish (ayer escribió ~ ayer estaba escribiendo), do not exhibit a clear-cut morphological distinction of this kind within the same tense, if I may put it as simply as possible?</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you very much!</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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