Can the deictic centre be shifted?

Posthumus, Lionel

doi:10.1080/02572117.1999.10587396

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“…In effect, the grammaticalization of this second event-locus establishes a second temporal continuum, dependent on the time of the speech event for its proper temporal interpretation. For detailed discussions on the development, morphological form and the imbricated forms of these relative tense verb forms consider Posthumus (1988Posthumus ( , 1999Posthumus ( , 2001Posthumus ( , 2006Posthumus ( , 2008.…”

Section: The Distinction Between Absolute and Relative Tenses And The Naming Of The Two Tense Systemsmentioning

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A critique of ‘A re-evaluation of tense in isiZulu’

Posthumus

2016

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This article is a response to Groenewald’s 2014 article, ‘A re-evaluation of tense in isiZulu’. Sub-themes identified in Groenewald’s article and explored in this exposé in the light of an array of recently published research on the topic of tense are: the suitability of the distinction between absolute and relative tense and the use of the term ‘absolute tense’; the appropriateness of defining tense in terms of deixis; the remoteness distinctions in terms of past and future tenses generally distinguished in the Bantu languages with particular reference to isiZulu; the semantic significance of the use of the so-called short and long forms of the present and past tenses of isiZulu and the naming of the individual tenses.

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Section: The Distinction Between Absolute and Relative Tenses And The Naming Of The Two Tense Systemsmentioning

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“…] and Botne [1986Botne [ , 1989Botne [ , 1993 and Declerck et al [2008:502] maintain, nor does it constitute a shifted deictic centre. For a comprehensive discussion on this topic see Posthumus [1999]. )…”

Section: Distinguishing Between the Two Past Tense Forms Of Isizulu And Naming These Tense Formsmentioning

confidence: 99%