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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