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Defina, R. (in press). Tense, aspect, and mood in Avatime. Afrika und Übersee.
Abstract
The Ghana-Togo Mountain languages are a typologically distinct group of languages within the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Until recently, they have received very little documentary attention, and are still greatly under-described. Where there is information regarding the tense, aspect, and mood system, Ghana-Togo Mountain languages are described as tense and aspect prominent. In contrast, Kwa languages are typically aspect and mood prominent, with little to no grammatical tense marking. Is the apparent greater emphasis on tense one of the typological features that separates the Ghana- Togo Mountain languages from the other Kwa languages? Or has tense been overrepresented due to the lack of description? In the case of Avatime, it is the latter. Previous accounts have described Avatime with a strong focus on tense. However, when the semantics are considered in more detail, we see that none of the forms contains an inherent specification for tense. While there is often a default interpretation in the past, present or future, this default can easily be overridden. Thus, Avatime has a typical Kwa system with a focus on aspect and mood and no grammatical tense. -
Fitz, H., Hagoort, P., & Petersson, K. M. (in press). Neurobiological causal models of language processing. Neurobiology of Language.
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Hammarström, H., & Parkvall, M. (in press). Basic Constituent Order in Pidgin and Creole Languages: Inheritance or Universals? Journal of Language Contact.
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Hegemann, L., Corfield, E. C., Askelund, A. D., Allegrini, A. G., Askeland, R. B., Ronald, A., Ask, H., St Pourcain, B., Andreassen, O. A., Hannigan, L. J., & Havdahl, A. (in press). Genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity in early neurodevelopmental traits in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study. Molecular Autism.
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O’Meara, C., Kung, S. S., & Majid, A. (in press). The challenge of olfactory ideophones: Reconsidering ineffability from the Totonac-Tepehua perspective. International Journal of American Linguistics.
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Ter Bekke, M., Levinson, S. C., Van Otterdijk, L., Kühn, M., & Holler, J. (in press). Visual bodily signals and conversational context benefit the anticipation of turn ends. Cognition.
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Zettersten, M., Cox, C., Bergmann, C., Tsui, A. S. M., Soderstrom, M., Mayor, J., Lundwall, R. A., Lewis, M., Kosie, J. E., Kartushina, N., Fusaroli, R., Frank, M. C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Black, A. K., & Mathur, M. B. (in press). Evidence for infant-directed speech preference is consistent across large-scale, multi-site replication and meta-analysis. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science.
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Zhou, H., Van der Ham, S., De Boer, B., Bogaerts, L., & Raviv, L. (in press). Modality and stimulus effects on distributional statistical learning: Sound vs. sight, time vs. space. Journal of Memory and Language.
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