Covert Tense in Jarawara
This paper examines tenseless clauses in Jarawara, a member of the Arawa family spoken in Brazil. I argue that a subset of these clauses have a "covert" allomorph that marks immediate past eyewitness tense.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dartmouth College Library
2009-01-01
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| Series: | Linguistic Discovery |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.333 |