rarissimum 118: neither tense nor aspect grammaticalized at all
Where found
Maybrat, Hatam, perhaps further languages of the Bird’s Head area, New Guinea (non-Austronesian)
Domain
morphology: inflection
Subdomain
categories and their domains: tense-aspect
Keywords
tense, aspect, grammaticalization
Type
rarissimum
Universals violated
none
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.
