32.822, Books: The Expression of Temporal Meaning in Caboverdean: Pratas

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Subject: 32.822, Books: The Expression of Temporal Meaning in Caboverdean: Pratas

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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:58:33
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: The Expression of Temporal Meaning in Caboverdean: Pratas

 


Title: The Expression of Temporal Meaning in Caboverdean 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110626629/html 


Author: Fernanda Pratas

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110668247 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

One hot topic in contemporary linguistics concerns how we express the passage
of time in natural language. In particular, interesting questions have been
raised as to how formerly understudied languages fit into deep-rooted
theoretical frameworks, which among other features comprise a grammatical
category of tense.

This monograph mainly contributes to this debate in two complementary ways:
through a detailed description of a large set of new data from two varieties
of Caboverdean, a Portuguese-related language, and through a novel approach to
the role of its few temporal morphemes, which allows to better define how
tense meanings, aspect, and mood, together with other linguistic and
extralinguistic information, provide what we understand as past, present, and
future.

The adequate study of this non-standardized language, with its impressive
internal variation, thus brings new insights to old theoretical problems.
Additionally, a welcome side effect of these new descriptions and analyses is
that they promote a scientifically grounded attitude towards linguistic
diversity.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Kabuverdianu (kea)


Written In: English  (eng)

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