Three properties of temporal organization in Bantu T/A systems

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Robert Botne

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In complex Bantu tense systems, tense marking is commonly analyzed in terms of relative temporal distance from the deictic center, typically the time of utterance. The author shows that this kind of strict linear approach is not always satisfactory. Rather, the organization of the tense systems often depends on the time scale involved, on the time unit (proximal or distal), and/or on the time scope (contemporal or dissociated worlds).

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