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Aspect

Index of SIL publications on Aspect listed by country.

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General works

• Bailey, Nicholas A. 1994. "Some literary and grammatical aspects of genealogies in Genesis."
• Buth, Randall. 1994. "Methodological collision between source criticism and discourse analysis: The problem of ‘unmarked temporal overlay’ and the pluperfect/nonsequential ‘wayyiqtol’."
• Ljungberg, Bo-Krister. 1995. "Tense, aspect, and modality in some theories of the biblical Hebrew verbal system."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• Anderson, Stephen C. and Bernard Comrie, editors. 1991. Tense and aspect in eight languages of Cameroon.  
• Ernst, Urs. 1991. "Temps et aspect en kakɔ."  
• Heath, Daniel. 1991. "Tense and aspect in Makaa."  
• Hollingsworth, Kenneth R. 1991. "Tense and aspect in Mofu-Gudur."  
• Jarvis, Elizabeth. 1991. "Tense and aspect in Podoko narrative and procedural discourse."  
• Ubels, Edward H. 1983. "Mood and aspect in Karang."
• Wiesemann, Ursula. 1989. "Aspect-mood distinctions."
• Wilkendorf, Patricia. 1991. "Le système temporel et aspectuel de la langue nɔmaandɛ́."  

Côte d’Ivoire

• Bearth, Thomas. 1986. L’articulation du temps et de l’aspect dans le discours toura.
• Hopkins, Bradley L. 1987. Le système aspecto-modal du Yaouré.
• Marchese, Lynell. 1982. "Basic aspectual categories in Proto-Kru."
• Vick, Renée L. 1990. Le système aspecto-modal de l’abidji.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Cullen, Wendy Ruth. 1999. Tense and aspect in Lubwisi narrative discourse.
• McKee, Robert G. 1992. "‘Here’, ‘there’, ‘yonder’, and beyond with Meje aspect."
• Nicolle, Steve. 2003. "Distal aspects in Bantu languages."

Kenya

• Nicolle, Steve. 2003. "Distal aspects in Bantu languages."
• Payne, Doris L. 1995. Review of: Aspekt im Maa, by Christa Konig.

Nigeria

• Burquest, Donald A. 1992. "An introduction to the use of aspect in Hausa narrative."  
• Jarrett, K. A. 1981. "The development of the Kanuri aspect system within Western Saharan."

Togo

• Gasser, Marcel. 1988. "The use of completive and incompletive aspect in Nawdm narrative discourse."
• Higdon, Lee M. 1996. Tense, aspect, and modality in Gangam narrative and hortatory discourse.
• Wiesemann, Ursula. 1986. "Aspect and mood as a nine-cell matrix."

Uganda

• Cullen, Wendy Ruth. 1999. Tense and aspect in Lubwisi narrative discourse.

Americas

Brazil

• Dooley, Robert A. and Harold G. Green. 1977. "Aspectos verbais e categorias discursivas da língua palikur."  
• Groth, Christa. 1988. "Modo y aspecto en el discurso canamari."
• McLeod, Ruth. 1974. "Paragraph, aspect and participant in Xavante."
• Popovich, A. Harold. 1967. "Large grammatical units and the space-time setting in Maxakalí."

Chile

• Harmelink, Bryan L. 1988. "The expression of temporal distinctions in Mapudungun."

Guatemala

• McArthur, Harry S. 1979. "The role of aspect in distinguishing Aguacatec discourse types."  

Mexico

• Bascom, Burton. [1994]. "La conjugación de conjunciones en el tepehuán del norte."
• Benton, Joseph P. 1997. "Aspect shift in Chichicapan Zapotec narrative discourse."
• Bickford, J. Albert and Stephen A. Marlett. 1988. "The semantics and morphology of Mixtec mood and aspect."
• Bull, Brian E. 1984. "Aspect formation of San Jerónimo Mazatec verbs."
• Jamieson, Carole. 1982. "Conflated subsystems marking person and aspect in Chiquihuitlán Mazatec verbs."
• Pickett, Velma B. 1989. "Aspect in Isthmus Zapotec."
• Wallis, Ethel E. 1956. "Simulfixation in aspect markers of Mezquital Otomi."
• Watters, James K. 1984. "Notas sobre el aspecto en tepehua."

Peru

• Bean, Mark E. 1989. "-riyku y otros sufijos de aspecto en el quechua de Dos de Mayo, Huánuco."
• Benson, Janice. 1996. "El aspecto perfectivo en la narrativa del quechua de Huamalíes."  
• Floyd, Rick. 1996. "Sufijos direccionales/aspectuales del quechua."  
• Hintz, Daniel J. 2008. Aspect and aspectual interfaces in South Conchucos Quechua: The emergence of grammatical systems.
• Miller, Michael. 1992. "Elección de aspecto: ‘-Kacha(a)’ o ‘-ykacha(a)’, aspecto verbal en el quechua del Callejón de Huaylas."  
• Rich, Rolland. 1981. "Técnicas de narración en arabela con referencia a tiempo y aspecto."  
• Stewart, Anne M. 1984. "Why -skI? A study of verbal aspect in Conchucos Quechua."

United States

• Story, Gillian. 1996. Review of: The semantics of time: aspectual categorization in Koyukon Athabaskan, by Melissa Axelrod.

Asia

Indonesia

• Abbott, Ruth Louise. 1995. Discourse conditions governing aspect: The use of sudah and telah in Indonesian.
• Barr, Donald F. 1983. "Realis-irrealis distinction in Daʼa."
• Hartzler, Margaret. 1983. "Mode, aspect, and foregrounding in Sentani."
• Sims, Andrew. 1986. "The use of tense and aspect in foregrounding and backgrounding in Ketengban narrative discourse."
• van den Berg, René. 1987. "Beberapa aspek morfologi kata kerja bahasa Muna."

Laos

• Costello, Nancy A. 2001. "Aspect and tense in Katu of the Lao P.D.R.."  

Malaysia

• Boutin, Michael E. 1994. Aspect in Bonggi.

Nepal

• Glover, Warren W. 1998. Review of: Aspect, mood, and time in Belhare: studies in the semantics-pragmatics interface of a Himalayan language, by Balthasar Bickel.
• Watters, David E. 1999. "The iconicity of direction marking in Kham."

Philippines

• Green, Peter. 1979. "Co-existent aspect-marking phenomena in Tagbanwa of Palawan Island."
• Morey, Virginia. 1964. "Distributional restrictions on co-occurrence of aspect and focus morphemes in Ata verbs."
• Sawyer, Louise. 1975. "Aspect in Amganad Ifugao."
• Wolfenden, Elmer. 1984. "Verb aspect in Masbateno discourse."

Europe

Malta

• Giezendanner, Ruedi. 1983. Review of: a study of aspect in Maltese, by Albert G. Borg.

Pacific

Australia

• Hudson, Joyce. 1976. "The derivational affix ‘having’."
• Hudson, Joyce. 1983. "Transitivity and aspect in the Kriol verb."
• Kennedy, Rodney J. 1985. "Kalaw Kawaw verbs: speaker perspective and tense, mood, and aspect."
• Sayers, Barbara J. 1977. "Aboriginal world view and tense, mood and aspect in Wik-Munkan."

Papua New Guinea

• Boush, Al. 1979. Aspect on Tifal final and medial verbs.  
• Hepner, Mark. 1995. "Tense, aspect and modality in Bargam."