Abstract
This article is concerned with some features of the tempo-aspectual system of Shumcho, a small West Himalayish (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken in a few villages in the district Kinnaur (State of Himachal Pradesh) in the Indian Himalayas, and provides a descriptive account of the language’s strategies to express progressive or habitual action and the effects of the respective markers with various types of predicates. I also consider the semantic (evidential) properties of the copulas and their interaction with the aspect/tense system, and offer some thoughts on the historical development of imperfective and perfective constructions as met in the present-day language.
Abbreviations
- 1/2/3/4
first/second/third/fourth person
- 1/2
first/second person AgrO or AgrS
- abl
ablative
- adess
adessive
- AgrO
object agreement
- AgrS
subject agreement
- ass
assertive
- aux
auxiliary
- coh
cohortative
- cond
conditional
- conv
converb
- cop
copula
- dat
dative
- dd
discourse-deictic prefix
- dm
discourse marker
- emph
emphatic
- erg
ergative
- etc.
etcetera
- excl
exclusive
- exp
experiencer
- f, f
feminine
- foc
focus
- fut
future
- gen
genitive
- h
honorific
- imp
imperative
- impf
imperfective
- incl
inclusive
- inf
infinitive
- intr
intransitive
- irr
irrealis
- loc
locative
- m, m
masculine
- mir
mirative
- neg
negation
- nh
non-honorific
- onom.
onomatopoetic
- past
past
- perf
perfective
- pl
plural
- poss
possessive
- prs
present
- prog
progressive
- q
question marker
- qty/nr
quantity/number
- s
singular
- TAM
tense, aspect, or mood marker
- top
topic marker
- WH
West Himalayish
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Reflections on habituality across other grammatical categories
- Habituality in four Oceanic languages of Melanesia
- The evolution of past-hab in Cuzco Quechua
- Progressivity and habituality in Shumcho
- Iterative and avertive polysemy in Moksha Mordvin
- Expressions of habituality in Polish
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Reflections on habituality across other grammatical categories
- Habituality in four Oceanic languages of Melanesia
- The evolution of past-hab in Cuzco Quechua
- Progressivity and habituality in Shumcho
- Iterative and avertive polysemy in Moksha Mordvin
- Expressions of habituality in Polish