Times and dates

Abstract

A thorough treatment of adverbial expressions should include indications of time and dates. It is for that reason that this chapter starts out with the clock. Next are notions related to periods such as days, months, years, and centuries, whether or not combined with expressions specifying the beginning, middle, or end of some period. Other notions in the scope of the current topic are next and last, after and before, names of the days, months, seasons, and the formulation of dates. Not surprisingly, many forms can be combined and a peculiarity is that certain combinations are exclusively formed by compounding. Quite like genitive and locative phrases, phrases based on a temporal noun can also take the suffix –ki(n). The final section discusses a property that –ki(n) shares with the possessive suffix –(s)i(n), namely anaphoric and cataphoric reference.