Covert Tense in Jarawara
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2009
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pages 43-105
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This paper examines tenseless clauses in Jarawara, a member of the Arawá family spoken in Brazil. I argue that a subset of these clauses have a "covert" allomorph that marks immediate past eyewitness tense.
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Linguistic Discovery 7(1)
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92351