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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:52:47
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Beyond Aspect: Payne, Shirtz (eds.)

 


Title: Beyond Aspect 
Subtitle: The expression of discourse functions in African languages 
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 109  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.109 


Editor: Doris L. Payne
Editor: Shahar Shirtz

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027267870 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206909 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206909 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206909 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

Certain grammatical elements help hearers know how propositions are
conceptually related: Does a given proposition advance the foregrounded event
line, or not? Initiate versus continue an event chain? Indicate that one
proposition belongs to a different "mental space" from the previous one?
Provide background information? Studies in this volume show that African
languages sometimes support, but often refute the idea that perfective aspect
or past tense marks the narrative event line. Rather, languages may employ
clause level constructions, conjunctions or connectives, tonal melodies on
verbs or subjects, specialized auxiliaries, special verb forms and even
dependent clause and imperfective aspect forms. Often, correlation of such
grammatical elements with the event line is a subcase of a more general
function. Analyses in this volume contribute to developing a typology of the
expression of discourse functions, a field of research which has so far been
minimally addressed from a typological perspective.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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