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Tense/Aspect

Index of SIL publications on Tense/Aspect listed by country.

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General works

• BUTH, Randall J., author. 1986. "The taxonomy and function of Hebrew tense-shifting in the Psalms (qatal-yiqtol-yiqtol-qatal, antithetical grammatical parallelism)."
• CLIFTON, Deborah A.; CLIFTON, John M., editors. 2002. Comments on discourse structures in ten Turkic languages.
• FILIP, Hana, author. 1996. "Boundedness in temporal and spatial domains."
• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2001. Review of: Tense and aspect: from semantics to morphosyntax, by Alessandra Giorgi and Fabio Pianesi and Tense and aspect in Indo-European languages: theory, typology, diachrony, by John Hewson and Vit Bubenik.
• RAND, Sharon R., author. 1991. Towards a semantic definition of the French ‘imparfait’ and ‘passé simple’ and its implications for their uses in French discourse.
• VOGEL, Sylvain, author. 2000. "Deux marqueurs temporels du khmer moderne mun et miñ."  
• WERNER, John, author. 1985. "When is past not past? (the epistolary aorist)."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• JACKSON, Ellen M., author. 1980. "Aspect, tense, and time shifts in Tikar."
• ORWIG, Carol J., author. 1991. "Relative time reference in Nugunu."  

Côte d’Ivoire

• FLIK, Eva, author. 1978. "Dan tense-aspect and discourse."  
• MARCHESE, Lynell, author. 1979. Tense/aspect and the development of auxiliaries in the Kru language family.
• MARCHESE, Lynell, author. 1986. Tense/aspect and the development of auxiliaries in Kru languages.  

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• BRADLEY, Karen M., author. 1994. Profile and spectrum analysis of ‘li-’ and ‘ka-’ in Zairian Swahili narrative discourse.

Ghana

• JORDAN, Dean, author. 1978. "Nafaara tense-aspect in the folk tale."  

Mali

• LAUSCHITZKY, Christiane, author. 2007. The verb in Bozo Jenaama.

Mozambique

• FLOOR, Sebastian, author. 2004. "Tense-aspect switching in Mwani: the consecutive -ki- and the perfect verbs in narrative."

Nigeria

• AARON, Uche E., author. 1996. "Grammaticization of the verb ‘say’ to future tense in Obolo."
• AARON, Uche E., author. 1999. Tense and Aspect in Obolo: Grammar and Discourse.  

Americas

Colombia

• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1991. "Variations in tense-aspect markers among inga (quechuan) dialects."

Mexico

• BISHOP, Ruth G., author. 1979. "Tense-aspect in Totonac narrative discourse."  

Peru

• BRAUCH, Christa, author. 1981. "Tiempos pasado y presente en narraciones del quechua del Pastaza."  
• WISE, Mary Ruth, author. 2005. "Evolución de raíces verbales en sufijos direccionales y de tiempo-aspecto en lenguas arawakas."

Saint Lucia

• FRANK, David B., author. 2004. "TMA and the St. Lucian Creole verb phrase."

Asia

Kyrgyzstan

• DAVLETOV, Mukhtar; WALKWITZ, Edward R., authors. 2002. "The use of tense/aspect in two Kyrgyz stories."

Malaysia

• BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1991. "Aspect and temporal reference in Banggi."
• KROEGER, Paul R., author. 1990. "Stative aspect and unaccusativity in Kimaragang Dusun."
• KROEGER, Paul R., author. 1991. "The event line in Kimaragang narrative."
• PEKKANEN, Inka, author. 1984. "Verb tense/aspect in Tatana discourse."  

Philippines

• TROYER, Lester O., author. 1966. "Linguistics as a window into man’s mind: Gaddang time segmentation."

Europe

France

• RAND, Sharon R., author. 1993. The French Imparfait and Passé Simple in Discourse.  

Pacific

Australia

• GRABER, Philip L., author. 1997. "The factuality system of Kriol."

Papua New Guinea

• ALLEN, Jerry, author. 1971. "Tense/aspect and conjunctions in Halia narratives."
• ANDERSEN, T. David; ROBERTS, John R., authors. 1991. "An exception to the hodiernal: Non-hodiernal distinction."
• FELDPAUSCH, Becky; FELDPAUSCH, Thomas, authors. Available: 2009; Created: 2003. TAM marking in Namia.