Temporal deixis in early child Romanian
This paper investigates the contrastive use of tense-aspect inflections in early childRomanian. It focuses on the use of the prezent, perfect compus and the periphrastic futuremorphologies. It finds evidence of the ability to inflect a significant number of the verbs in all thetenses mentioned below...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/temporal_deixis_in_early_child_romanian |
| Summary: | This paper investigates the contrastive use of tense-aspect inflections in early childRomanian. It focuses on the use of the prezent, perfect compus and the periphrastic futuremorphologies. It finds evidence of the ability to inflect a significant number of the verbs in all thetenses mentioned below the age of 3;0. Additionally, by analysing the context of occurrence ofthese child predicates, it shows that a basic system of temporal deixis becomes operative beforethe above-mentioned age. Consequently, the evidence presented by the paper runs against theclaims of the Aspect First Hypothesis. |
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| ISSN: | 2069-9239 |