[Lingtyp] Intuitions about inclusive time reference

[Guillaume Jacques]

Dear Bjoern,

This is a side issue to the topic raised by Osten, but concerning your
question:

That is, a need of only being very precise about a bounded event time
> within a cyclical interval (of which the utterance interval is a small
> subinterval) without specifying anything about the speaker's
> knowledge/belief status (certainty etc.)? In other words: for natural
> language use this sort of question might be too outlandish, because
> speakers are just "more interested" in other aspects of reference to
> (bounded) events than just and only their temporal location in relation to
> the time of speech.


Some languages, mainly in the Americas and Papua, have the ability to
encode in the verb morphology whether an action takes place during a
particular cyclical interval (day time, night time, winter time etc)
without any specific relation with the time of utterance. I proposed to
call this "periodic tense", see https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2023-2013 (a
preprint can be downloaded here:
https://www.academia.edu/100176007/Periodic_tense_markers_in_the_world_s_languages_and_their_source

Apart from Chukotkan, it is not attested to my knowledge in Eurasia and
Africa.

Best wishes,

Guillaume

  <https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2023-2013>

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