Crossing Aspectual Frontiers: Emergence, Evolution, and Interwoven Semantic Domains in South Conchucos Quechua Discourse"Aspect is widely present in most Quechuan languages, but it has been summarily treated or even overlooked in most of the existing descriptive grammars. This book changes that situation completely. It contains detailed discussions of the semantics and the use of aspect in its relation to tense, modality, evidentiality, etc., and opens up a wealth of unexpected data. ...The historical chapters are a most welcome addition to the grammatical analysis because they are highly relevant for our understanding of the development of aspect in other Quechuan languages and in the Quechuan family as a whole." - Willem Adelaar, Leiden University "This book addresses what is perhaps the most challenging area in the study of Quechuan languages: the scores of suffixes that occur between the verb root and person-marking inflection. It not only sheds light on one of these languages, South Conchucos Quechua, but it shows us new ways to investigate such complexities. This book will stand as a landmark in the study of Quechua." - David Weber, SIL International |
Contents
Imperfectives | 3 |
1 | 4 |
1 | 9 |
1 | 14 |
THE GRAMMATICAL EXPRESSION OF ASPECT IN SOUTH | 23 |
Perfectives | 47 |
The SCQ aspect system | 87 |
23 | 101 |
Progressive suffixes | 202 |
The evolution of imperfectives | 211 |
A 5 | 219 |
Narrative and reportative pasts | 225 |
Aspectualizing constructions | 231 |
The emergence of grammatical systems | 275 |
Appendix B SCQ aspect and the derivationinflection continuum | 297 |
The formal status of imperfectives in SCQ | 299 |
Aspect and tense | 111 |
Aspect and modality | 127 |
Aspect and manner | 149 |
Aspect and middle voice | 165 |
The evolution of perfectives | 185 |
The geographic range of ski in central Peru | 307 |
Appendix F Transcriptions of two conversation segments in SCQ | 311 |
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Common terms and phrases
Adelaar adverbial appears aspect in SCQ aspect markers aspect suffixes aspect system aspectual aspectual meanings auxiliary Bybee Central Quechua Cerrón-Palomino Chapter cognate combination Conchucos construction contexts continuous yka contrast copula Corongo cross-linguistic Cuzco derivational aspect derivational perfective derivational suffixes discourse distributive paku durative ra dynamic verbs elements enclitic example finite frequent functions grammatical development grammatical system grammaticization habitual Ĝ Hintz Huallaga Huanca Huaraz Huaylas illustrated imperfective markers inflectional inflectional past INFLECTIONAL PERFECTIVES iterative ykacha ka:ku language family linguistic middle voice modality morpheme morphology N/A N/A N/A narrative past nonfinite occurs past habitual past perfective past perfective ru past tense Pastaza Pastaza Quechua perfective and imperfective perfective aspect perfective ski perfective suffixes periphrastic Peru present habitual punctual ri Quechuan languages rayka reduplication reflexive ri:ku slot 12 Southern Quechua speaker specific speech-act participants stative synchronic Table Tarma tsay types verb root vowel