Dead or Alive: A Lifetime Effect of Pomak Nominal Tense in a Self-Paced Reading Experiment

Nominal tense is a cross-linguistically rare and understudied phenomenon, with past vs. non-past being the minimal distinction. In some languages, past nominal tense implies the reading ‘deceased’, while in others, lifetime effects (i.e., implicatures about whether an individual is dead or alive) re...

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Published in:	Languages
Main Authors:	Evangelia Adamou, Seçkin Arslan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2024-10-01
Subjects:	processing reading nominal tense verbal tense lifetime effect Pomak
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/11/331