EAN: 9783110668247

THE EXPRESSION OF TEMPORAL MEANING IN CABOVERDE...

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 sideeffect of these new descriptions and analyses is that they promote
a scientifically grounded attitude towards linguistic diversity.

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