Fossilised fictive quotation: Future tense in Aikanã
Aikanã, an indigenous isolate language, is spoken in the south of the state of Rondônia, Brazil, and it has a way of expressing future tense that is, at first sight, somewhat surprising. In addition to a future morpheme (-re-, or remote future -ta-), the construction involves an obligatory first per...
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Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
2013-08-01
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Series: | Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222013000200009&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt |