Verbal aspects in West Greenlandic: lexical and grammatical aspects

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Abstract

In this article, lexical aspectual types in West Greenlandic are investigated in the five aspectual
types, states, achievements, semelfactives, activities and accomplishments. It is shown
that derivational verbalizing affixes include aspectual type congruent with the lexical aspect
and how the aspectual type is changed in West Greenlandic. It is also shown how the grammatical
aspectual affixes change the lexical aspect as well, and the ordering of the affixes
is described shortly.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelStudies in Inuit Linguistics in honor of Michael Fortescue
RedaktørerLawrence Kaplan , Anna Berge
Antal sider23
UdgivelsesstedFairbanks, Alaska
ForlagAlaska Native Language Center, Fairbanks, Alaska
Publikationsdato15 jun. 2017
Sider67-90
ISBN (Trykt)978-1-5550-125-4
StatusUdgivet - 15 jun. 2017

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