LINGUIST List 16.2043
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Thu Jun 30 2005
Qs: Historical Present/Non-IE; German Phonology
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1. Keira
Ballantyne,
Historical Present outside of Indo-European
2. Stefan
Ploch,
Phonology of German
Message 1: Historical Present outside of Indo-European
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Date: 29-Jun-2005
From: Keira Ballantyne <keiraballantynegmail.com>
Subject: Historical Present outside of Indo-European
Dear colleagues,
I wonder if anyone could point me to examples of historical present or
historical present-like phenomena outside of Indo-European? I'm looking for
descriptions of or examples in languages where a present tense is used
within narrative text to describe events which have a clear past
interpretation.
I'm only aware of Robin Hooper's work suggesting that the Tokelauan
inchoative may be an example of a similar phenomenon (Hooper, Robin. 1998.
Universals of narrative pragmatics: a Polynesian case study. Linguistics.
36: 119 - 160). Any other leads would be much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Keira Ballantyne
keiraballantynegmail.com
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Language Description
Pragmatics
Message 2: Phonology of German
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Date: 28-Jun-2005
From: Stefan Ploch <plochlanguages.wits.ac.za>
Subject: Phonology of German
I am collating a bibliography about the phonology of German. Which books
and articles would you recommend (and why)?
I will post a summary.
Many thanks!
Stefan Ploch.
Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
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