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Development of Tense and Aspect Systems
Edited by Jadranka Gvozdanović
[Benjamins Current Topics 123] 2022
► pp. 21–61

The history of tense and aspect in the Sogeram family

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The Proto-Sogeram tense-aspect system
    • 2.1Synthetic forms
    • 2.2Serial verb constructions
  • 3.Innovations
    • 3.1Gants innovations
    • 3.2Kursav innovations
    • 3.3Aisi innovations
    • 3.4Mum innovations
    • 3.5Sirva innovations
    • 3.6Apalɨ innovations
    • 3.7Manat innovations
    • 3.8Nend innovations
    • 3.9Mand innovations
  • 4.Discussion
    • 4.1Generalizations about source constructions
    • 4.2Generalizations about target constructions
    • 4.3What we do not see
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 4 August 2022
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