24.1247, Books: Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality Marking in South American Indigenous Languages: M üller

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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:16:32
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality Marking in South American Indigenous Languages: Müller

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Title: Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality Marking in South
American Indigenous Languages 
Series Title: LOT dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 

Author: Neele Janna Müller

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460931079 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 22.69 Comment: only available through internet

Abstract:

This study presents an analysis of morpho-syntactic tense, aspect, modality,
and evidentiality (TAME) marking in a sample of 63 South American indigenous
languages (SAILs) with regard to typological, geographical, and genealogical
distributions. It aims to provide an overview over the occurrence of selected
TAME features in South America and seeks to uncover possible patterns that add
to our understanding of the distribution of these SAILs. The basis for the
analysis is a questionnaire designed i) to capture the major TAME features and
ii) to take into account several features of particular interest in South
America. The following features are investigated: future, past, present,
remoteness degrees in future and past, realis, irrealis, forms of command
marking (imperative), intentional, potential, certainty/ uncertainty,
dubitative, frustrative, purposive, desiderative, perfective, imperfective,
anterior, habitual, continuative, iterative, completive, incompletive,
firsthand, non-firsthand, secondhand, quotative, visual, inferred, and
assumed. Taken into account are overt morpho-syntactic markers, such as
affixes, clitics, and particles. The language sample was designed to balance
geographical and genealogical diversity of SAILS with a focus on certain
families and regions, taking the availability of good descriptions into
account. The sample represents 25 languages families in addition to 11
unclassified languages. To summarize, results show that the distribution of
TAME in the sample is highly heterogeneous in all respects. Exceptions include
some language families (e.g. Quechuan) and a few geographical patterns (e.g.
of FRUSTRATIVE). It is argued that possibly the relative instability of TAME
is the reason for this.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphosyntax
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): South American Mixed Language

Written In: English  (eng)

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