Jelle Christiaans

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jelle Christiaans plays a role.

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Christiaans, Jelle 2024 The discourse function of verbal aspect in Ecuadorian Siona Linguistics in the Netherlands 2024, Bril, Marco and Kristel Doreleijers (eds.), pp. 194–209 | Article
In addition to indicating whether or not events have come to an end at a reference time (temporal function), the opposition between imperfective aspect and perfective aspect in Ecuadorian Siona can also fulfil a discourse function. Imperfective forms of the verb caye ‘to say’ can signal that a… read more