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Publication details [#7814]
Rafferty, Ellen. 1982. Aspect in conversational Indonesian. In Hopper, Paul J., ed. Tense-Aspect: Between semantics and pragmatics. Containing the contributions to a symposium on tense and aspect, held at UCLA, May 1979. John Benjamins. pp. 65–87. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The purpose of the paper is to show how the encoding of non-referential, aspectual meaning in Indonesian varies across genres of language, and to suggest that the pragmatic meaning encoded in a grammatical form may change over time indicating an interaction between pragmatic meaning and grammatical form.