Chapter 12 The tense-mood-aspect systems of the languages of Suriname

• Main Author: Borges, Robert (auth)
• Other Authors: Muysken, Pieter (auth), Villerius, Sophie (auth), Yakpo, Kofi (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2017
• Subjects: linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Historical & comparative linguistics; Language Contact; Creoles; Bilingualism; Language Change.
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This chapter deals with tense, mood, and aspect (TMA) marking in the languages of Suriname, focusing on the stability of forms, meanings, and structural pat-terns. Despite its prominent position in the creolization debate and occasional mentions in the literature on linguistic areas, studies on TMA in (non creoliza-tion) contact settings in Suriname are relatively few. TMA has been studied in detail in the world's languages, however, in terms of: - typology (Dahl 1985, 2000; Boland 2006; Dahl and Velupillai 2011a, 2011b, 2011c, 2011d; Dryer 2011; Velupillai 2012); - creolization (Singler 1990; Bakker et al. 1994; Winford 2001; Velupillai 2015: 391-403); and - historical development & grammaticalization (Bybee et al. 1994)