Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Historical Present outside of Indo-European
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| Author: | Keira Ballantyne | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Discourse Analysis
Language Documentation Pragmatics |
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| Query: |
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 keiraballantyne@gmail.com |
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| LL Issue: | 16.2043 | |
| Date posted: | 30-Jun-2005 | |
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