Rara #118

Legacy number: 118

 Number  118
 Phenomenon  neither tense nor aspect grammaticalized at all
 Found in  Maybrat, Hatam, perhaps further languages of the Bird's Head area, New Guinea (non-Austronesian)
 Domain  morphology: inflection — categories and their domains: tense-aspect
 Type  rarissimum
 Keywords  tense, aspect, grammaticalization
 Source  Dahl, Östen (2001). Languages without tense and aspect. In Karen Ebert & Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), Aktionsart and Aspectotemporality in Non-European Languages, 159-173. (Arbeiten des Seminars für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 16.) Zürich: Universit?t Zürich.
based on
Dol, Philomena (1999). A grammar of Maybrat: A language of the Bird's Head, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Ph.D. dissertation, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden.
Reesink, Ger P. (1998). The Bird's Head as sprachbund. In Jelle Miedema et al. (eds.), Perspectives of the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, 603-641. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
 Violates  none

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