A Study of Tenselessness in Rengma (Western)
Rengma is a Tibeto−Burman language from the Naga group (Angami−Pochuri) spoken in Northeast India. The paper is one of the first attempts in documenting the Western Rengma language, a variety of Rengma found in Karbi Anglong district, Assam. It makes attempts to study the tense,...
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| description | Rengma is a Tibeto−Burman language from the Naga group (Angami−Pochuri) spoken in Northeast India. The paper is one of the first attempts in documenting the Western Rengma language, a variety of Rengma found in Karbi Anglong district, Assam. It makes attempts to study the tense, aspect and mood features present in Western Rengma in comparison to related neighbouring Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages such as Angami and Sema and thereby, seek to identify the aspect of tenselessness in this language. The study further examines the serial verb construction (SVC) as pivotal in determining time in relation to tense−aspect−mood (TAM). Throughout the paper, we observe the semantic-pragmatic features to probe the verbal features and later validate if time in Rengma is a genetic or an areal feature. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d3c187c602cb4afe98ef040a0c7a507d2022-12-22T02:11:26ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2019-11-01448910.3390/languages4040089languages4040089A Study of Tenselessness in Rengma (Western)Monali Longmailai0Centre for Endangered Languages, Tezpur University, Tezpur-784028 Assam, IndiaRengma is a Tibeto−Burman language from the Naga group (Angami−Pochuri) spoken in Northeast India. The paper is one of the first attempts in documenting the Western Rengma language, a variety of Rengma found in Karbi Anglong district, Assam. It makes attempts to study the tense, aspect and mood features present in Western Rengma in comparison to related neighbouring Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages such as Angami and Sema and thereby, seek to identify the aspect of tenselessness in this language. The study further examines the serial verb construction (SVC) as pivotal in determining time in relation to tense−aspect−mood (TAM). Throughout the paper, we observe the semantic-pragmatic features to probe the verbal features and later validate if time in Rengma is a genetic or an areal feature.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/4/4/89tenseaspectmoodrengma |
| spellingShingle | Monali Longmailai A Study of Tenselessness in Rengma (Western) Languages tense aspect mood rengma |
| title | A Study of Tenselessness in Rengma (Western) |
| title_full | A Study of Tenselessness in Rengma (Western) |
| title_fullStr | A Study of Tenselessness in Rengma (Western) |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Study of Tenselessness in Rengma (Western) |
| title_short | A Study of Tenselessness in Rengma (Western) |
| title_sort | study of tenselessness in rengma western |
| topic | tense aspect mood rengma |
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