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The Expression of Temporal Meaning in Caboverdean

  • Fernanda Pratas
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2021
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One hot topic in contemporary linguistics concerns how we express the passage of time in natural language. In particular, interesting questions have been raised as to how formerly understudied languages fit into deep-rooted theoretical frameworks, which among other features comprise a grammatical category of tense.

This monograph mainly contributes to this debate in two complementary ways: through a detailed description of a large set of new data from two varieties of Caboverdean, a Portuguese-related language, and through a novel approach to the role of its few temporal morphemes, which allows to better define how tense meanings, aspect, and mood, together with other linguistic and extralinguistic information, provide what we understand as past, present, and future.

The adequate study of this non-standardized language, with its impressive internal variation, thus brings new insights to old theoretical problems. Additionally, a welcome side effect of these new descriptions and analyses is that they promote a scientifically grounded attitude towards linguistic diversity.

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Fernanda Pratas, Lisbon, Portugal.

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    Frontmatter

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    Preface

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    Contents

    IX
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    1 Questions and goals

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    2 Lexical items in the functional domain

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    3 A view from subordination

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    4 Tense

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    5 The most of times

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    6 Final remarks

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    References

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    Index

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eBook published on:
February 8, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110626629
Hardcover published on:
February 8, 2021
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110668247
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Front matter:
10
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218
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15
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110626629
eBook ISBN: 9783110626629
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110668247
Keywords for this book
Temporal Reference; Mood and Aspect; Linguistic Variation; Caboverdean
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It is aimed at a broad scientific audience, including typologists and formal linguists.
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