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Tense

Index of SIL publications on Tense listed by country.

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General works

• BOOS, David, author. 1984. "The historical present in John’s Gospel."
• CALLOW, John C., author. 1984. "The function of the historic present in Mark 1:16-3:6; 4:1-41; 7:1-23, 12:13-34."
• FRANCE, R. T., author. 1972. The exegesis of Greek tenses in the New Testament.
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1992. "The historic present and speech margins in Matthew."  
• LJUNGBERG, Bo-Krister, author. 1995. "Tense, aspect, and modality in some theories of the biblical Hebrew verbal system."
• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1994. "‘Weqatal’ forms in biblical Hebrew prose: a discourse-modular approach."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• ANDERSON, Stephen C.; COMRIE, Bernard, editors. 1991. Tense and aspect in eight languages of Cameroon.  
• ERNST, Urs, author. 1991. "Temps et aspect en kakɔ."  
• GERHARDT, Phyllis, author. 1989. "Les temps en nugunu."
• HEATH, Daniel, author. 1991. "Tense and aspect in Makaa."  
• HOLLINGSWORTH, Kenneth R., author. 1991. "Tense and aspect in Mofu-Gudur."  
• HYMAN, Larry M.; WATTERS, John R., authors. 1984. "Auxiliary focus."
• JARVIS, Elizabeth, author. 1991. "Tense and aspect in Podoko narrative and procedural discourse."  
• WILKENDORF, Patricia, author. 1986. "The marking of tense in Nɔmaantɛ́."
• WILKENDORF, Patricia, author. 1991. "Le système temporel et aspectuel de la langue nɔmaandɛ́."  

Côte d’Ivoire

• MARCHESE, Lynell, author. 1984. "Tense innovation in the Kru language family."

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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

Ethiopia

• WILL, Hans-Georg, author. 1998. "The Meʼen verb system: Does Meʼen have tenses?."

Ghana

• POPE, Anthony, author. 1988. "The use of the present indicative to signal future time in New Testament Greek, with special reference to the Gospel of John."

Mali

• CARLSON, Robert, author. 1992. "Narrative, subjunctive, and finiteness."

Togo

• BRINNEMAN, Neal, author. 1983. "Rélations interpropositionelles temporelles dans le lama."
• HIGDON, Lee M., author. 1996. Tense, aspect, and modality in Gangam narrative and hortatory discourse.

Uganda

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

Americas

Bolivia

• ROSBOTTOM, Harry, author. 1961. "Different-level tense markers in Guaraní."

Brazil

• BUTLER, Nancy E., author; DANIEL, Mary L., translator. 1978. Modo, extensão temporal, tempo verbal e relevância contrastiva na língua terêna.  
• KOEHN, Edward H., author. 1976. "The historical tense in Apalaí narrative."
• TAYLOR, John M., author. 1984. "Marcação temporal na língua kaiwá."  

Canada

• GARDNER, Holly; SPIELMANN, Roger W., authors. 1979. "Verb tense organization as an interactional resource in conversational storytelling."

Chile

• CROESE, Robert A., author. 1984. "Tiempo verbal en mapudungun."

Colombia

• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1978. "¿Tiempo pretérito, o acción de fondo? una diferencia dialectal en inga."  

Mexico

• COLEMAN, Ned R.; JONES, Linda K., authors. 1979. "Towards a discourse perspective of modes and tenses in Kickapoo narratives."  
• HERZOG, Dorothy L., author. 1974. Person, number and tense in the Tepehua verb.  
• HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1976. "Tense-negation interplay in Copala Trique."
• SCHRAM, Terry L., author. 1979. "Tense, tense embedding, and theme in discourse in Mazatec of Jalapa de Diaz."  

Peru

• BUCKINGHAM, Andrew, author. 1996. "Usos del tiempo presente en los textos orales narrativos."  
• HINTZ, Diane M., author. 2007. Past tense forms and their functions in South Conchucos Quechua: time, evidentiality, discourse structure and affect.  
• PAYNE, Judith K., author. 1982. "Directionals as time referentials in Ashéninca."
• PAYNE, Judith K., author. 1983. "Los direccionales como referenciales de tiempo en ashéninca."  
• SHAVER, Harold, author. 1975. "Campa nomatsiguenga: Tiempos del verbo."  

Asia

Indonesia

• SIMS, Andrew, author. 1986. The use of tense and aspect in foregrounding and backgrounding in Ketengban narrative discourse.

Laos

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

Philippines

• ERRINGTON, Ross, author. 1979. "Discourse types and tense patterns in Cotabato Manobo."  
• FORFIA, Kathleen, author. 1979. "Nonpast tense in Gaʼdang narrative discourse."  
• REID, Lawrence A., author. 1971. "Tense sequence in procedural discourse."
• SHAND, Jean, author. 1964. "Categories and markers of tense, focus and mode in Ilianen Manobo."

Viet Nam

• HATFIELD, Deborah H., author. 1986. Tense marking in the spoken English of Vietnamese refugees.

Pacific

Australia

• GLASGOW, Kathleen B., author. 1964. "Frame of reference for two Burera tenses."
• KENNEDY, Rodney J., author. 1985. "Kalaw Kawaw verbs: speaker perspective and tense, mood, and aspect."
• SAYERS, Barbara J., author. 1977. Aboriginal world view and tense, mood and aspect in Wik-Munkan.  

Papua New Guinea

• HEPNER, Mark, author. 1995. "Tense, aspect and modality in Bargam."