The Perfective Form in Arusa – a Cognitive-Grammaticalization Model

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dc.contributor.authorKarani, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-04T14:45:36Z
dc.date.available2019-10-04T14:45:36Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe present paper studies the semantics of the so-called perfective (PFV) form in Arusa (Maasai), using the model of the dynamic (one- and two-dimensional) semantic maps. The analysis demonstrates that PFV is a broad, semi-advanced resultative-path gram. It spans large sections of the two sub-paths of the resultative path: the anterior path (present perfect, perfective and non-perfective past, as well pluperfect and future perfect) and the simultaneous path (present stative). However, the PFV form is incompatible with the input sense of the resultative path (a resultative proper present) and the most advanced stages of the two sub-paths (non-stative present and progressive past). If the information related to prototypicality is included, the map adopts the shape of a wave with the prototypicality peaks located in the area of a perfective past and, to a lesser degree, a present perfect. The senses of a non-perfective past and a stative present are less prototypical. Other senses (pluperfect, future perfect and counterfactual irrealis) are non-prototypical, contributing minimally to the gram’s semantics.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAndrason, A. & Karani, M. 2017. The Perfective Form in Arusa – a Cognitive-Grammaticalization Model. Asian and African Studies, Volume 26, Number 1. pp 69-101en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5314
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAsian and African Studiesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries;Volume 26, Number 1
dc.subjectMaasai, TAM verbal semantics, maps, cognitive linguistics, grammaticalizationen_US
dc.titleThe Perfective Form in Arusa – a Cognitive-Grammaticalization Modelen_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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