Elzbieta Thurgood

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Thurgood, Elzbieta and Graham Thurgood 1996 Aspect, Tense, or Aktionsart? The Particle Ja in Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:1, pp. 45–70 | Article
This paper attempts to determine whether the particle ja in Kristang (spoken in Malacca, Malaysia) functions as part of an aspect, a tense, or an aktionsart system. The paper first argues that ja does not mark the perfective in an aspectual system. Second, it argues that ja does not mark the past… read more