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Surcomposé Tenses
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| Author: | Gerhard Schaden | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Morphology
Syntax |
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| Summary: |
Regarding query: http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-693.html#1
This is the summary of the answers I received for my query on Surcompos�� Tenses. My query had two subparts: first, I wanted to know in which languages there are or were once some kind of surcompos�� tenses, that is, tenses where an already compound tense is `overauxiliated', like in 1) John has had eaten a cake. I knew that such tenses exist (or existed) in French, Francoproven��al, Occitan, Varieties of Northern Italian, Rhetoromance languages, German and Yiddish (which I unfortunately forgot to mention in the query). It was pointed out several times that many Slavic languages had or still have some sort of double compound tenses, generally to express a kind of pluperfect meaning. The languages cited were: - Bulgarian - Czech - Polish - Russian - Serbo-Croatian - Slovak Among the Celtic languages, some dialects of Breton have a double compound tense, which closely ressembles the Southern French Pass�� Surcompos��. Among the Germanic languages (other than German and Yiddish), some Danish dialects have developed a double compound perfect, which also behaves somewhat like the Southern French ones. There is also one Austronesian language spoken on the islands of Yap (and called Yapese) which allows for doubled preverbal particles. My second question concerned the existence of languages with doubled tense inflexions, roughly something that would look like: 2) John work-ed-ed at home Korean seems to show exactly the structure in (2): the past suffix ''-ass'' may be doubled to ''-ass-ass'' and produces something that works roughly like a pluperfect. It was pointed out that Awtuw, a language spoken in Papua New Guinea, had a desiderative suffix ''-rere'' which looks like a duplication of the future suffix ''-re'' (this is probably rather a doubled mood inflexion than a `pure' tense inflexion). --------------- References: The following books and articles where suggested for further reading: Abraham, Werner; Conradie, C. Jac. 2001. Pr��teritumschwund und Diskursgrammatik. John Benjamins. Ballantyne, Keira. 2005. Textual Structure and Discourse Prominence in Yapese Narrative. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Hawai'i. Feldman, Harry. 1986. A Grammar of Awtuw. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Hewitt, Steve. 2002. The Impersonal in Breton. Journal of Celtic Linguistics 7. Litvinov, Victor; Radcenko, Vladimir (1998). Doppelte Perfektbildungen in der deutschen Literatursprache. T��bingen: Stauffenburg. Migdalski, Krzysztof. 2006. The Syntax of Compound Tenses in Slavic. Doctoral Dissertation, Tillburg University. Roth, Juliana. 1979. Die indirekton Erlebnisformen im Bulgarischen. Eine Untersuchung zu ihrem Gebrauch in der Umgangssprache. M��nchen: Otto Sagner. Toops, Gary H. ''A Contrastive Survey of the German ''Konjunktiv'' and Bulgarian ''preizkazno naklonenie''''. Balkanistica 6 (1999): 269-289. Weigand, Gustav. 1907. Bulgarische Grammatik. Leipzig: J.A. Barth. I was also told that Vladimir Plungian (University of Moscow) has worked on this topic quite a lot. Last but not least, Robert Binnicks bibliography on tense, aspect and related areas provides a section on surcompos�� tenses: http://www.scar.utoronto.ca/~binnick/TENSE/Surcomp.html --------------- Acknowledgements: I would like to thank all the people who offered me help, took the time to send me an answer and/or articles, and who were so kind to answer my questions concerning their answers: Werner Abraham, Keira Ballantyne, Loren Billings, Daniel Collins, An Dong-hwan, Harry Feldman, Markus Giger, Sarah Harmon, Steve Hewitt, Dmitry Idiatov, David Mandic, Krzysztof Migdalski, Robert Millar, Maj-Britt Mosegard Hansen, Kate Paesani, Paula Radetzky, Mathieu Roy, and Gary Toops I also would like to thank the person(s) I might have forgotten to mention here. |
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| LL Issue: | 17.812 | |
| Date Posted: | 16-Mar-2006 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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