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Tonhauser's research interests include Presupposition projection, Prosody and Meaning, Temporal Anaphora and Reference, and empirical methods in Semantics and Pragmatics. She is known for her work in theoretical semantics and pragmatics, specifically on cross-linguistic semantic/pragmatic variation.
This temporal marker is -ni whose referential force is futurity. Its temporal function is primary; however, in many contexts i-ni also takes on a number of secondary, atemporal functions which essentially belong to the modal category (imperative, hortative, desiderative, etc.). Since no markers exist to point out present or past time, Hopi ...
Analytic languages tend to have a relatively limited number of markers. Markers should be distinguished from the linguistic concept of markedness . An unmarked form is the basic "neutral" form of a word, typically used as its dictionary lemma , such as—in English—for nouns the singular (e.g. cat versus cats ), and for verbs the infinitive ...
Wuvulu language is a minority language in Pacific. The Wuvulu verbal aspect is hard to organize because of its number of morpheme combinations and the interaction of semantics between morphemes. [24] Perfective, imperfective negation, simultaneous and habitual are four aspects markers in Wuvulu language.
In linguistics, a tenseless language is a language that does not have a grammatical category of tense. Tenseless languages can and do refer to time , but they do so using lexical items such as adverbs or verbs, or by using combinations of aspect , mood , and words that establish time reference. [ 21 ]
Image depicting temporal, spatial and personal deixis, including a deictic center. In linguistics, deixis (/ ˈ d aɪ k s ɪ s /, / ˈ d eɪ k s ɪ s /) [1] is the use of words or phrases to refer to a particular time (e.g. then), place (e.g. here), or person (e.g. you) relative to the context of the utterance. [2]
The basic verb phrase in Tsimshian is ordered: TEMPORAL MARKER, verb. However, many of the noun phrases in the sentence can be represented on both the verb and/or the temporal marker as pre-, in- or suffixes. There are five temporal markers which can combine to form various tenses or aspects. nah: (perfective) nah dzap "already made"
A language can have hundreds of adpositions (including complex adpositions), but no language has that many distinct morphological cases. Even so, a clear distinction cannot always be made. For example, the post-nominal elements in Japanese and Korean are sometimes called case particles and sometimes postpositions. Sometimes they are analyzed as ...