Imperfective Aspect and the Interplay of Aspect, Tense, and Modality in Torau
Imperfective Aspect and the Interplay of Aspect, Tense, and Modality in Torau
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Torau 中的不完美体以及体、时态和情态的相互作用
DOI：
10.1353/ol.2008.0000
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发表时间：
2007
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0.9
通讯作者：
Bill Palmer
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作者：
Bill Palmer
Torau展示了一个高度复杂的体、时态和情态标记系统。这一系统中最复杂的元素之一是未完成体的标记。托罗语中的未完成体是由两个显性未完成体标记中的一个选择和可能存在的重叠构成的。由这种结构编码的未完成语义的范围变化很大，包括进行性的，习惯性的，持续性的，和进行性的开始或起始的。给出哪种阅读不仅取决于未完成标记的选择和重叠的有无，而且取决于这些因素与其他体、情态或时态标记以及动词本身的体语义之间的复杂相互作用。本文将这些高度相互依赖的因素分开，以确定每个未完成标记和重叠的独立功能特征。
Torau displays a highly complex system of aspect, tense, and modal marking. One of the most complex elements of this system is the marking of imperfective aspect. Imperfective in Torau is marked by a construction employing a choice of two overt imperfective markers and the possible presence of reduplication. The range of imperfective semantics encoded by this construction varies widely, encompassing progressive, habitual, persistive, and progressive inchoative or inceptive. Which reading is given depends not only on the choice of imperfective marker and the presence or absence of reduplication, but on a complex interplay of these factors with other aspectual, modal, or tense marking, and the aspectual semantics of the verb itself. This paper teases apart each of these highly interdependent factors to determine the independent functional characteristics of each imperfective marker and of reduplication.