The temporal categories of tense and aspect have received much attention in linguistic literature. But often scholars concentrate on their grammatical description without regard to their function in discourse. This work is a comprehensive and systematic description of the function of tense and aspect in the Obolo language. The data for this study are ten texts, both written and oral, from the Ngo dialect of Obolo, which is spoken in southeastern coastal Nigeria. They represent the four main discourse genres of narrative, procedural, expository, and hortatory. In the model adopted for this work, the discussion of tense and aspect in the sentence correlates with the referential component, while the discussion of the discourse functions of tense and aspect correlates with the textual component.
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Publisher
Sil International, Global Publishing
ISBN-13
9781556710636
eBay Product ID (ePID)
115660454
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Book Title
Tense and Aspect of Obolo Grammar and Discourse
Author
Uche Ekereawaji Aaron
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Volume
128
Item Weight
272g
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Title_Author
Uche Ekereawaji Aaron
Series Title
Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas