Tense and aspect in Lai Chin
This paper presents a description of the aspectual system of the Tibeto-Burman language Lai Chin (or Lai).' The aspectual system of Lai is very rich and complex, and a complete investigation of Lai aspect is far beyond the scope of this paper, whose goal is merely to provide a general descripti...
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| description | This paper presents a description of the aspectual system of the Tibeto-Burman language Lai Chin (or Lai).' The aspectual system of Lai is very rich and complex, and a complete investigation of Lai aspect is far beyond the scope of this paper, whose goal is merely to provide a general descriptive overview and to examine the semantic and morphosyntactic properties of the aspectual particles. Aspectual distinctions in Lai are mainly represented by a few pre- and post-verbal particles and adverbs with aspectual or combined temporal and aspectual meaning. There seems to be no evidence for a morphological category of aspect in Lai, contrary to the organization of many aspectual systems, as, for example, Slavic languages or, to a lesser extent, English. This is not surprising, since Lai has exclusively verb agreement morphology and is otherwise an isolating or almost isolating language. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1781642024-06-11T06:02:16Z Tense and aspect in Lai Chin Kavitskaya, Darya University of California, Berkeley Arts and Humanities This paper presents a description of the aspectual system of the Tibeto-Burman language Lai Chin (or Lai).' The aspectual system of Lai is very rich and complex, and a complete investigation of Lai aspect is far beyond the scope of this paper, whose goal is merely to provide a general descriptive overview and to examine the semantic and morphosyntactic properties of the aspectual particles. Aspectual distinctions in Lai are mainly represented by a few pre- and post-verbal particles and adverbs with aspectual or combined temporal and aspectual meaning. There seems to be no evidence for a morphological category of aspect in Lai, contrary to the organization of many aspectual systems, as, for example, Slavic languages or, to a lesser extent, English. This is not surprising, since Lai has exclusively verb agreement morphology and is otherwise an isolating or almost isolating language. Published version 2024-06-11T06:02:15Z 2024-06-11T06:02:15Z 1997 Journal Article Kavitskaya, D. (1997). Tense and aspect in Lai Chin. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 20(2), 173-213. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.20.2.06 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178164 10.32655/LTBA.20.2.06 2 20 173 213 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1997 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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| title | Tense and aspect in Lai Chin |
| title_full | Tense and aspect in Lai Chin |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Tense and aspect in Lai Chin |
| title_short | Tense and aspect in Lai Chin |
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