Thera Marie Crane

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Thera Marie Crane plays a role.

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Crane, Thera Marie 2015 The roles of Dissociative and (Non-)Completive morphology in structuring Totela (Bantu) narratives Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages, Payne, Doris L. and Shahar Shirtz (eds.), pp. 145–176 | Article
In Totela, infinitive-based ‘narrative’ morphology alternates with forms inflected for tense and aspect. While narrative morphology can depict sequential events, inflected forms are used with both non-sequential and sequential event predicates. When inflected forms appear, especially in contexts… read more
Crane, Thera Marie, Remah Lubambo, M Petrus Mabena, Cordelia Nkwinika, Muhle Sibisi and Onelisa Slater  What can be said? Variation among expressions of modal possibility in a South African language cluster Studies in Language: Online-First Articles | Article
We employ a cluster approach to explore the comparative semantic maps of several markers of modal possibility – the “potential” prefix nga‑ and expressions meaning, roughly, ‘know how to’ and ‘be able to’ – in four South African Nguni languages: isiNdebele, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Siswati. We also… read more