From: Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: wayyiqtol in zulu and swahili
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:48:03 -0400 (EDT)
was thinking of various discussions on this list in light of my sept
paper for a linguistics conference: "the syntax and semantics of
sequence: zulu, swahili and biblical hebrew". i will be arguing for a
modal analysis crosslinguistically, following up on Palmer's cambridge
textbook on mood. the idea is that morphologically, sequential forms
pattern with modality; and syntactically, sequential forms pattern
with modality; and that palmer's analysis appears to be the right sort
of approach, though the precise formal-semantic analysis of sequence
as a combination of mood and tense remains a research project.
cheers
v
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