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The Expression of Temporal Meaning in Caboverdean (Hardcover)
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The Expression of Temporal Meaning in Caboverdean (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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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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