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The unmarked form of Cape Verdean creole (CVC) verbs : their tense, aspect and stativity| old_uid | 13534 |
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| title | The unmarked form of Cape Verdean creole (CVC) verbs : their tense, aspect and stativity |
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| start_date | 2014/03/03 |
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| schedule | 15h30-17h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | 3e étage, salle 328 |
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| summary | This paper deals with the unmarked form of Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) verbs, focussing
on the influence of context and time adverbials in determining the meaning, tense,
aspect and stativity of the verbs. It presents an analysis of the meaning of CVC verbs
when they are unmarked, showing that stativity is crucially relevant and that many
verbs can be stative in one context and non
stative in others. Thus, CVC verbs fall into
three groups according to whether their unmarked form indicates present, past or bot
h.
In addition, the criteria used for the grouping is based on whether they can enter into
serial verb constructions (SVC) and whether they behave like action verbs (non
stative
verbs) or stative verbs. Note that the concept of serial verb construction is
used here for
construction of two or more adjacent verbs, or even for constructions which allow
prepositions to come in between the verbs but that can be left out. |
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| responsibles | Zribi-Hertz |
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