Beyond aspect : the expression of discourse functions in African languages

Beyond aspect the expression of discourse functions in African languages

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Payne, Doris L., 1952- (-), Shirtz, Shahar
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company [2015]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Typological studies in language ; 109.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39269115*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beyond Aspect
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Discourse structuring and typology
  • 1. Discourse and discourse functions
  • 1.1 Definitions and operationalizations
  • 1.1.1 Foreground: Main event line, "important", "unexpected"
  • 1.1.2 Degrees of foreground
  • 1.2 Discourse functions as comparative concepts
  • 1.3 Exploration of MEL as a comparative concept
  • 1.3.1 Elaborating Hopper's 1979 typology
  • 1.3.2 Revisiting Hopper's analysis of Swahili
  • 1.4 Axes of variation in MEL as a typological domain
  • 2. Expressing the MEL
  • 2.1 Complexity in expressing foregrounding
  • 2.2 Strategies for expressing events on the MEL
  • 2.3 The interaction between aspect and (other) expressions of the MEL
  • 3. Structuring of discourse
  • 4. Conclusions, further questions
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Aspect and thematic clause combining in Maa (Nilotic)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical preliminaries
  • 2.1 Operationalizing narrative main event line
  • 2.2 Tense and aspect categories
  • 3. Narrative sequences versus the Maa n[HL]- prefix
  • 4. "Past" and "Perfective" versus the Maa PF category
  • 4.1 Evidence from elicitation: Not "past tense".
  • 4.2 Evidence from text distribution: Not "past tense" and not "narrative main event line".
  • 4.3 Entry into an anterior or backflash cognitive space, out of sequence with the narrative mel.
  • 4.4 Anterior action with relevance to current discourse space
  • 4.5 Pure anterior
  • 4.6 Resultant state of anterior action with continuing effect up to "now"
  • 4.7 Entry into a non-anterior "daughter" cognitive space of supporting relevance to a "parent" space
  • 4.8 Presenting already-shared information in order to ground something in the current discourse space.
  • 4.9 Entry into a "closure" or "assessment" cognitive space that summarizes an earlier cognitive space.
  • 5. Typological and diachronic notes
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Main event line structure and aspect in Sandawe narratives
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Grammatical preliminaries
  • 2.1 Basic clause structure
  • 2.2 Clause combinations
  • 2.3 Aspect
  • 3. Structuring the narrative
  • 3.1 Advancing the MEL
  • 3.2 Outside the MEL
  • 3.3 Perfective and imperfective aspect concepts in non-MEL information
  • 3.4 Non-sequential events in non-MEL information
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Appendix: Orthography
  • The Functions of Non-Final Verbs and Their Aspectual Categories in Northern Mao (Omotic) Narrative
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. An overview of relevant Northern Mao patterns
  • 2.1 Northern Mao alignment: Word order, case marking, and bound pronominal marking
  • 2.2 The Final verb category
  • 2.3 A note on the Northern Mao sentence
  • 3. Northern Mao's non-final verb types
  • 3.1 Subject marking and non-final verbs
  • 3.2 Tense-inheritance and non-final verbs
  • 3.3 Aspect on non-final verbs
  • 3.4 Event Sequence vs. overlap
  • 4. The function of non-final verbs and their aspectual categories in narrative discourse
  • 4.1 Non-final verb choice and the marking of main and non-main events.
  • 4.1.1 Main event marking: Ss and ds non-final verbs
  • 4.1.2 Non-main event marking: Ti non-final verbs
  • 4.2 Progressive aspect and temporal overlap: Non-main events
  • 4.3 Perfect aspect and highlighting sequence: Temporal sectioning of main events
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Aspect-Mood and discourse in Kabyle (Berber) spoken narratives
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 1.1 Foregrounding, backgrounding and aspect
  • 1.2 Kabyle
  • 1.2.1 Aspect-Mood
  • 1.2.2 Word order
  • 2. Folktale 'The seven daughters'.
  • 2.1 Synopsis
  • 2.2 Word order
  • 2.3 Mood-aspect profile
  • 2.3.1 Perfective
  • 2.3.2 Imperfective
  • 2.3.3 Preverbed Aorist
  • 3. Personal recount: 'The traditional vs. contemporary life of women'
  • 3.1 Discourse organization
  • 3.2 Aspect-Mood profile
  • 4. Discussion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • The Roles of Dissociative and (Non-)Completive Morphology in Structuring Totela (Bantu) Narratives
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Totela
  • 1.2 Terminology and conventions
  • 2. Dissociation and Completion in Totela
  • 2.1 (Non-)Completion
  • 2.1.1 Situation types
  • 2.1.2 Completive {u2011}a-
  • 2.1.3 Non-Completives
  • 2.2 Dissociation
  • 2.3 Summary of verb forms
  • 3. (Non-)completion in Totela narrative
  • 3.1 Completion in narrative
  • 3.1.1 Completive marking as episodic boundary marking
  • 3.1.2 Resumptive and other uses of Completive marking
  • 3.1.3 Completion in Totela narrative: Summary
  • 3.2 Non-completion in narrative
  • 3.2.1 Non-completion and songs
  • 4. Dissociation in narrative
  • 4.1 Abstract and orientation
  • 4.2 Coda
  • 4.3 Dissociation in narrative: Summary
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Rethinking narrative tenses based on data from Nalu (Atlantic) and Yeyi (Bantu)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Narrative tenses and related verb forms in African languages
  • 3. Detachment and dimensionalization
  • 4. An introduction to the relevant Yeyi verb forms
  • 4.1 Structure of an inflected Yeyi verb
  • 4.2 Prehodiernal Anterior (SCa
  • taa
  • Stem
  • a)
  • 4.3 Prehodiernal Past (SCa
  • riku
  • Stem
  • a)
  • 4.4 Consecutive Tense (SCa
  • kú
  • Stem
  • a)
  • 5. The joint operation of taa-, kú- and riku- in discourse for relating prehodiernal past events
  • 5.1 Presenting Yeyi discourse located in the prehodiernal past
  • 5.2 The collaboration of taa-, kú-, and riku- in relating past events.
  • 5.3 The collaboration of taa-, kú-, and riku- in terms of dimensionality and detachment
  • 6. Hodiernality in Yeyi
  • 7. An introduction to the relevant TAM forms in Nalu
  • 7.1 Events in the present
  • 7.2 Events in the past
  • 7.2.1 Past event in current time region (anterior)
  • 7.2.2 Past event in distal time region (recent past)
  • 7.2.3 Past event in detached time region (past anterior)
  • 7.3 The contextualizing forms
  • 8. Joint operation of stage-setting and contextualizing forms in Nalu past narratives
  • 8.1 Presenting discourse located in the past in Nalu
  • 8.2 Detachment and dimensionality in regards to the Nalu past forms
  • 9. A comparison of Yeyi and Nalu
  • 9.1 Detachment in Yeyi and Nalu past narratives
  • 9.2 Dimensionalization in Yeyi and Nalu past narratives
  • 9.3 Contextualizing in Yeyi and Nalu past narratives
  • 10. Conclusions
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Narrative uses of the U{u0331}t-Ma'in (Kainji) Bare Verb form
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Fauconnier's mental space model and defining narrative
  • 1.2 U{u0331}t-Ma'in language classification and data sources
  • 2. Overview of U{u0331}t-Ma'in language structures
  • 2.1 U{u0331}t-Ma'in nominal morphology
  • 2.2 U{u0331}t-Ma'in basic clause structure and verbal constructions
  • 2.2.1 Bare Verb clause construction
  • 2.2.2 Morphological expressions of Past and Perfect
  • 2.2.3 Auxiliary expressions of Progressive, Future and Deontic
  • 2.3 Other relevant verbal constructions
  • 2.3.1 Focus construction
  • 2.3.2 Spatial Deixis constructions
  • 2.3.3 Negative Existential construction
  • 2.3.4 Future and Purpose construction
  • 3. Space builders and interpreting the Bare Verb in narrative contexts
  • 3.1 Past -g construction as a space builder
  • 3.2 Perfect -t({u025B}) construction as a space builder
  • 3.3 Time adverbials as space builders
  • 3.4 Adverbial Clauses as space builders.
  • 4. Designating times: A structural analysis of an U{u0331}t-Ma'in text
  • 5. Conclusions regarding meaning of the Bare Verb
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • The Factative and the Perfective-Inchoative in Cuurammã (Turka, Gur)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2 Factative systems
  • 3. Factative and Perfective-Inchoative in conversation
  • 3.1 Interaction with dynamic predication
  • 3.2 Interaction with stative predication
  • 4. Clause chaining constructions
  • 5. The Factative and the Perfective-Inchoative in narrative discourse
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Aspectual and storyline tension in Emai's (Edoid) narrative template
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Aspect in Emai
  • 2.1 Affirmative inflection
  • 2.2 Negative inflection
  • 2.3 Aspectualizer preverbs
  • 2.4 Postverbal aspectual particles
  • 2.5 Subjunctive inflection
  • 2.6 Summary of Aspect Types
  • 3. Aspect distribution in an Emai narrative sample
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Topic Index
  • Language Index.

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