{"title":"Discontinuous past interpretation in Abaza","authors":"Evgenia Klyagina","doi":"10.1075/sl.23026.kly","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Abaza (Northwest Caucasian) has two perfective tenses which mark events in the past. In single clauses, however,\n one of them has a discontinuous interpretation. Recently, it has been argued that at least in some languages a discontinuous\n interpretation of past forms is a pragmatical implicature rather than a part of the encoded meaning. The aim of the paper is to\n describe the functions of the Abaza perfective past tenses and investigate the origin of the discontinuous interpretation in\n Abaza. Special attention is paid to the distribution of two tenses in various types of finite and non-finite clauses. The data\n show that there is no obligatory discontinuous interpretation in the syntactic environments where only one of the tenses can be\n used. However, the discontinuous interpretation does arise if two tenses compete with each other. Thus, the discontinuous\n implicature in Abaza can be considered a pragmatical implicature.","PeriodicalId":46377,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies in Language","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.23026.kly","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abaza (Northwest Caucasian) has two perfective tenses which mark events in the past. In single clauses, however,
one of them has a discontinuous interpretation. Recently, it has been argued that at least in some languages a discontinuous
interpretation of past forms is a pragmatical implicature rather than a part of the encoded meaning. The aim of the paper is to
describe the functions of the Abaza perfective past tenses and investigate the origin of the discontinuous interpretation in
Abaza. Special attention is paid to the distribution of two tenses in various types of finite and non-finite clauses. The data
show that there is no obligatory discontinuous interpretation in the syntactic environments where only one of the tenses can be
used. However, the discontinuous interpretation does arise if two tenses compete with each other. Thus, the discontinuous
implicature in Abaza can be considered a pragmatical implicature.
期刊介绍：
Studies in Language provides a forum for the discussion of issues in contemporary linguistics from discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspectives. Areas of central concern are: discourse grammar; syntactic, morphological and semantic universals; pragmatics; grammaticalization and grammaticalization theory; and the description of problems in individual languages from a discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspective. Special emphasis is placed on works which contribute to the development of discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological theory and which explore the application of empirical methodology to the analysis of grammar.
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