Time in Navajo: Direct and Indirect Interpretation
Time in Navajo: Direct and Indirect Interpretation
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纳瓦霍时间：直接和间接解释
DOI：
10.1086/518334
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
0.1
通讯作者：
Theodore B. Fernald
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作者：
Carlota Smith;E. Perkins;Theodore B. Fernald
本文讨论纳瓦霍语句子的时间解释。纳瓦霍语的语言形式给出了时间信息：未来时态，过去和未来粒子，以及时间状语。这些形式是可选的，因此许多句子不包含直接的时间信息。在这种情况下，体信息提供了语用线索的时间位置的情况下表示。关键因素是有界性：在默认情况下，无界情况被视为现在，有界情况被视为过去。三个语用原则解释了从体到时间位置的推理。这些原则也适用于某些其他语言，适用于具有显性体观点的动词词以及零标记动词词。
This article discusses the temporal interpretation of Navajo sentences. Navajo has linguistic forms that give temporal information: future tense, past and future particles, and temporal adverbials. These forms are optional, so that many sentences contain no direct temporal information. In such cases, aspectual information gives pragmatic cues to the temporal location of the situation expressed. The key factor is boundedness: in the default case, unbounded situations are taken as present and bounded situations as past. Three pragmatic principles explain the inference from aspect to temporal location. The principles, which also hold for certain other languages, apply to verb words with overt aspectual viewpoints as well as to zero‐marked verb words.