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This paper details two storyboards —"Hawaii Trip" and "Imagining the Future"—which are designed to help investigate the way a given language does (or does not) mark predicates describing eventualities that take place in the future. I describe two studies employing these storyboar...
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ftdatacite:10.14288/sfm.v1i1.189463 2023-08-27T04:12:21+02:00 Describing Future Eventualities in Tlingit ... Cable, Seth Alfred 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/sfm.v1i1.189463 https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/storyboards/article/view/189463 en eng Semantic Fieldwork Methods https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/sfm.v1i1 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca Text article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.14288/sfm.v1i1.18946310.14288/sfm.v1i1 2023-08-07T14:24:23Z This paper details two storyboards —"Hawaii Trip" and "Imagining the Future"—which are designed to help investigate the way a given language does (or does not) mark predicates describing eventualities that take place in the future. I describe two studies employing these storyboards with a speaker of the Tlingit language (Na-Dene; Alaska, British Columbia, Yukon). In prior literature, it has been claimed that a verb in Tlingit does not require special future tense marking in order to describe a future eventuality (Leer 1991). However, it has proven difficult to confirm such uses of non-future-marked verbs in regular elicitation sessions with native speakers. Through use of these two storyboards with a gifted Tlingit story-teller, it was found that some narrators do indeed use non-future-marked verbs to describe eventualities that are understood to take place in the future. However, various contextual clues—including metalinguistic comments made by the narrator himself—-suggest that such usage may reflect a ... : Semantic Fieldwork Methods, Vol 1 No 1 (2019): Semantic Fieldwork Methods ... Article in Journal/Newspaper tlingit Alaska Yukon DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Yukon |
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This paper details two storyboards —"Hawaii Trip" and "Imagining the Future"—which are designed to help investigate the way a given language does (or does not) mark predicates describing eventualities that take place in the future. I describe two studies employing these storyboards with a speaker of the Tlingit language (Na-Dene; Alaska, British Columbia, Yukon). In prior literature, it has been claimed that a verb in Tlingit does not require special future tense marking in order to describe a future eventuality (Leer 1991). However, it has proven difficult to confirm such uses of non-future-marked verbs in regular elicitation sessions with native speakers. Through use of these two storyboards with a gifted Tlingit story-teller, it was found that some narrators do indeed use non-future-marked verbs to describe eventualities that are understood to take place in the future. However, various contextual clues—including metalinguistic comments made by the narrator himself—-suggest that such usage may reflect a ... : Semantic Fieldwork Methods, Vol 1 No 1 (2019): Semantic Fieldwork Methods ... |
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