Perfectivity and time reference in Hausa
The relative marking in Hausa marks discourse presupposition in perfective and imperfective relative clauses and out-of-focus clauses of focus and fronted wh-questions. However, the Relative Perfective also appears in storyline narrative clauses and various accounts try to find a common feature betw...
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| Language: | English |
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Dartmouth College Library
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Linguistic Discovery |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.330 |