16.2043, Qs: Historical Present/Non-IE; German Phonology

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Subject: 16.2043, Qs: Historical Present/Non-IE; German Phonology

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1)
Date: 29-Jun-2005
From: Keira Ballantyne < keiraballantyne at gmail.com >
Subject: Historical Present outside of Indo-European 

2)
Date: 28-Jun-2005
From: Stefan Ploch < ploch at languages.wits.ac.za >
Subject: Phonology of German 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:20:02
From: Keira Ballantyne < keiraballantyne at gmail.com >
Subject: Historical Present outside of Indo-European 
 

Dear colleagues,

I wonder if anyone could point me to examples of historical present or
historical present-like phenomena outside of Indo-European? I'm looking for
descriptions of or examples in languages where a present tense is used
within narrative text to describe events which have a clear past
interpretation.

I'm only aware of Robin Hooper's work suggesting that the Tokelauan
inchoative may be an example of a similar phenomenon (Hooper, Robin. 1998.
Universals of narrative pragmatics: a Polynesian case study. Linguistics.
36: 119 - 160). Any other leads would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,

Keira Ballantyne

keiraballantyne at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Language Description
                     Pragmatics



	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:20:06
From: Stefan Ploch < ploch at languages.wits.ac.za >
Subject: Phonology of German 

	

I am collating a bibliography about the phonology of German. Which books
and articles would you recommend (and why)?

I will post a summary.

Many thanks!

Stefan Ploch. 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology


 



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