Marking anteriority, perfect and perfectivity in languages of mainland Southeast Asia – concepts, linguistic area
As a result of language contact, Southeast Asian languages belonging to different
language families share features, such as phonemic tone and numeral classifiers.
Similarities between Southeast Asian languages in the frequency of explicit
temporal marking, and the reference to spatial and temporal relations with
markers related to motion verbs might be also the result of language contact.
Descriptions of markers of Southeast Asian languages that express temporal
relations, differ in the literature due to their polysemy and due to the
application of seemingly universal categories to the description of language
specific concepts.
This paper discusses universal categories and polysemy before presenting
and comparing those grammatical markers of Burmese, Lao, Thai and
Vietnamese that are associated with the marking of the categories past, anteriority,
perfect or perfectivity.
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