The Prasun Verbal System and its Terminology

• Autores: Almuth Degener
• Localización: Historische Sprachforschung = Historical linguistics, ISSN 0935-3518, Nº. 129, 2016, págs. 184-195
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • The attempt to satisfactorily describe the verbal system of Prasun (Nuristani branch of Indo-Iranian) is doomed if the researcher presupposes a dominant temporal category. Once Prasun is accepted as a mood dominant language, its numerous verbal forms combine to form a fairly coherent and cross-linguistically not particularly exotic system. The paper explains how forms traditionally called “present”, “preterite” and “aorist” can be analyzed along the TAM scheme, but with some modifications concerning the categorization as tense or mood and accordingly some terminological changes. The paper refers to the verbal system of Prasun only, it does not answer the question why Prasun shows considerable (lexical and structural) differences from other Nuristani languages