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

• Autor principal: Borges, Robert (auth)
• Outros Autores: Muysken, Pieter (auth), Villerius, Sophie (auth), Yakpo, Kofi (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2017
• Assuntos: linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Historical & comparative linguistics; Language Contact; Creoles; Bilingualism; Language Change.
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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...