Towards a semantics of linguistic time : exploring some basic time concepts with special reference to English and Krio
Using English and the West-African creole language Krio as the objects of investigation, this study proposes an analysis in which verbs and the paradigms pertaining to verbs are conceived of as being the only direct carriers of linguistic time encoding. The fundamental assumption is that nominals en...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten
1997
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-71396 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:91-7191-261-4 |