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Title: BEYOND ASPECT
THE EXPRESSION OF DISCOURSE FUNCTIONS IN AFRICAN LANGUAGES
By: Doris L. Payne (Editor), Shahar Shirtz (Editor)
Format: Electronic book text

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ISBN 10: 9027267871
ISBN 13: 9789027267870
Publisher: JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
Pub. date: 2 December, 2015
Series: Typological Studies in Language 109
Pages: 321
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: Netherlands
Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co
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