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1 online resource. |
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Typological studies in language,
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Typological studies in language ; 109.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Beyond Aspect -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Discourse structuring and typology -- 1. Discourse and discourse functions -- 1.1 Definitions and operationalizations -- 1.1.1 Foreground: Main event line, "important", "unexpected" -- 1.1.2 Degrees of foreground -- 1.2 Discourse functions as comparative concepts -- 1.3 Exploration of MEL as a comparative concept -- 1.3.1 Elaborating Hopper's 1979 typology -- 1.3.2 Revisiting Hopper's analysis of Swahili -- 1.4 Axes of variation in MEL as a typological domain -- 2. Expressing the MEL -- 2.1 Complexity in expressing foregrounding -- 2.2 Strategies for expressing events on the MEL -- 2.3 The interaction between aspect and (other) expressions of the MEL -- 3. Structuring of discourse -- 4. Conclusions, further questions -- Abbreviations -- References -- Aspect and thematic clause combining in Maa (Nilotic) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical preliminaries -- 2.1 Operationalizing narrative main event line -- 2.2 Tense and aspect categories -- 3. Narrative sequences versus the Maa n[HL]- prefix -- 4. "Past" and "Perfective" versus the Maa PF category -- 4.1 Evidence from elicitation: Not "past tense". -- 4.2 Evidence from text distribution: Not "past tense" and not "narrative main event line". -- 4.3 Entry into an anterior or backflash cognitive space, out of sequence with the narrative mel. -- 4.4 Anterior action with relevance to current discourse space -- 4.5 Pure anterior -- 4.6 Resultant state of anterior action with continuing effect up to "now" -- 4.7 Entry into a non-anterior "daughter" cognitive space of supporting relevance to a "parent" space -- 4.8 Presenting already-shared information in order to ground something in the current discourse space. |
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4.9 Entry into a "closure" or "assessment" cognitive space that summarizes an earlier cognitive space. -- 5. Typological and diachronic notes -- 6. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- Main event line structure and aspect in Sandawe narratives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammatical preliminaries -- 2.1 Basic clause structure -- 2.2 Clause combinations -- 2.3 Aspect -- 3. Structuring the narrative -- 3.1 Advancing the MEL -- 3.2 Outside the MEL -- 3.3 Perfective and imperfective aspect concepts in non-MEL information -- 3.4 Non-sequential events in non-MEL information -- 4. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Appendix: Orthography -- The Functions of Non-Final Verbs and Their Aspectual Categories in Northern Mao (Omotic) Narrative -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An overview of relevant Northern Mao patterns -- 2.1 Northern Mao alignment: Word order, case marking, and bound pronominal marking -- 2.2 The Final verb category -- 2.3 A note on the Northern Mao sentence -- 3. Northern Mao's non-final verb types -- 3.1 Subject marking and non-final verbs -- 3.2 Tense-inheritance and non-final verbs -- 3.3 Aspect on non-final verbs -- 3.4 Event Sequence vs. overlap -- 4. The function of non-final verbs and their aspectual categories in narrative discourse -- 4.1 Non-final verb choice and the marking of main and non-main events. -- 4.1.1 Main event marking: Ss and ds non-final verbs -- 4.1.2 Non-main event marking: Ti non-final verbs -- 4.2 Progressive aspect and temporal overlap: Non-main events -- 4.3 Perfect aspect and highlighting sequence: Temporal sectioning of main events -- 5. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- Aspect-Mood and discourse in Kabyle (Berber) spoken narratives -- 1. Preliminaries -- 1.1 Foregrounding, backgrounding and aspect -- 1.2 Kabyle -- 1.2.1 Aspect-Mood -- 1.2.2 Word order -- 2. Folktale 'The seven daughters'. |
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2.1 Synopsis -- 2.2 Word order -- 2.3 Mood-aspect profile -- 2.3.1 Perfective -- 2.3.2 Imperfective -- 2.3.3 Preverbed Aorist -- 3. Personal recount: 'The traditional vs. contemporary life of women' -- 3.1 Discourse organization -- 3.2 Aspect-Mood profile -- 4. Discussion -- Abbreviations -- References -- The Roles of Dissociative and (Non-)Completive Morphology in Structuring Totela (Bantu) Narratives -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Totela -- 1.2 Terminology and conventions -- 2. Dissociation and Completion in Totela -- 2.1 (Non-)Completion -- 2.1.1 Situation types -- 2.1.2 Completive -a- -- 2.1.3 Non-Completives -- 2.2 Dissociation -- 2.3 Summary of verb forms -- 3. (Non-)completion in Totela narrative -- 3.1 Completion in narrative -- 3.1.1 Completive marking as episodic boundary marking -- 3.1.2 Resumptive and other uses of Completive marking -- 3.1.3 Completion in Totela narrative: Summary -- 3.2 Non-completion in narrative -- 3.2.1 Non-completion and songs -- 4. Dissociation in narrative -- 4.1 Abstract and orientation -- 4.2 Coda -- 4.3 Dissociation in narrative: Summary -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Rethinking narrative tenses based on data from Nalu (Atlantic) and Yeyi (Bantu) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Narrative tenses and related verb forms in African languages -- 3. Detachment and dimensionalization -- 4. An introduction to the relevant Yeyi verb forms -- 4.1 Structure of an inflected Yeyi verb -- 4.2 Prehodiernal Anterior (SCa -- taa -- Stem -- a) -- 4.3 Prehodiernal Past (SCa -- riku -- Stem -- a) -- 4.4 Consecutive Tense (SCa -- kú -- Stem -- a) -- 5. The joint operation of taa-, kú- and riku- in discourse for relating prehodiernal past events -- 5.1 Presenting Yeyi discourse located in the prehodiernal past -- 5.2 The collaboration of taa-, kú-, and riku- in relating past events. |
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5.3 The collaboration of taa-, kú-, and riku- in terms of dimensionality and detachment -- 6. Hodiernality in Yeyi -- 7. An introduction to the relevant TAM forms in Nalu -- 7.1 Events in the present -- 7.2 Events in the past -- 7.2.1 Past event in current time region (anterior) -- 7.2.2 Past event in distal time region (recent past) -- 7.2.3 Past event in detached time region (past anterior) -- 7.3 The contextualizing forms -- 8. Joint operation of stage-setting and contextualizing forms in Nalu past narratives -- 8.1 Presenting discourse located in the past in Nalu -- 8.2 Detachment and dimensionality in regards to the Nalu past forms -- 9. A comparison of Yeyi and Nalu -- 9.1 Detachment in Yeyi and Nalu past narratives -- 9.2 Dimensionalization in Yeyi and Nalu past narratives -- 9.3 Contextualizing in Yeyi and Nalu past narratives -- 10. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- Narrative uses of the U̱t-Ma'in (Kainji) Bare Verb form -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Fauconnier's mental space model and defining narrative -- 1.2 U̱t-Ma'in language classification and data sources -- 2. Overview of U̱t-Ma'in language structures -- 2.1 U̱t-Ma'in nominal morphology -- 2.2 U̱t-Ma'in basic clause structure and verbal constructions -- 2.2.1 Bare Verb clause construction -- 2.2.2 Morphological expressions of Past and Perfect -- 2.2.3 Auxiliary expressions of Progressive, Future and Deontic -- 2.3 Other relevant verbal constructions -- 2.3.1 Focus construction -- 2.3.2 Spatial Deixis constructions -- 2.3.3 Negative Existential construction -- 2.3.4 Future and Purpose construction -- 3. Space builders and interpreting the Bare Verb in narrative contexts -- 3.1 Past -g construction as a space builder -- 3.2 Perfect -t(ɛ) construction as a space builder -- 3.3 Time adverbials as space builders -- 3.4 Adverbial Clauses as space builders. |
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4. Designating times: A structural analysis of an U̱t-Ma'in text -- 5. Conclusions regarding meaning of the Bare Verb -- Abbreviations -- References -- The Factative and the Perfective-Inchoative in Cuurammã (Turka, Gur) -- 1. Introduction -- 2 Factative systems -- 3. Factative and Perfective-Inchoative in conversation -- 3.1 Interaction with dynamic predication -- 3.2 Interaction with stative predication -- 4. Clause chaining constructions -- 5. The Factative and the Perfective-Inchoative in narrative discourse -- 6. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Aspectual and storyline tension in Emai's (Edoid) narrative template -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aspect in Emai -- 2.1 Affirmative inflection -- 2.2 Negative inflection -- 2.3 Aspectualizer preverbs -- 2.4 Postverbal aspectual particles -- 2.5 Subjunctive inflection -- 2.6 Summary of Aspect Types -- 3. Aspect distribution in an Emai narrative sample -- 4. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Topic Index -- Language Index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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African languages -- Discourse analysis.
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African languages -- Discourse analysis. |
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African languages. |
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Discourse analysis.
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Discourse analysis. |
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Electronic books.
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Payne, Doris L., 1952- editor.
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Shirtz, Shahar, editor.
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Print version: Beyond aspect. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015] 9789027206909 (DLC) 2015028678 |
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9789027267870 (pdf) |
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9027267871 (pdf) |
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9027206902 |
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9789027206909 |
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9789027206909 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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