This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts.
The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb …

Murrinhpatha is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in a region of tropical savannah
and tidal inlets on the north coast of the continent. Some 3000 speakers live mostly in the …

This thesis explores the meaning and functions of discourse enclitics in Tena Kichwa, a
Quechuan language spoken in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The enclitics in question are non …

This paper contributes to the typology of complex perspective markers by presenting an in-
depth analysis of a system of epistemic authority marking which functionally overlaps with …

Bringing together fifty years' worth of cross-linguistic research, this pioneering monograph
explores the complex interaction between tense, mood and aspect. It looks at the long way …

This thesis provides an empirically driven and theoretically informed examination of
temporal, aspectual and modal (TAM) expression in Anindilyakwa, an underdescribed and …

Many so-called 'zero tense'-marked (which we define as morphologically reduced and
underspecified inflections) or untensed verb forms found in tenseless languages, have been …

The goal of this chapter is to explore the meaning of now. The upshot of this exploration is a
glimpse of how the meanings of tense and temporal adverbs interact. The chapter begins …

A core goal of research in language is to understand the factors that guide choice of
linguistic form where more than one option is syntactically well-formed. We discuss one case …

The clitic= lku in Warlpiri and Warlmanpa (Ngumpin-Yapa, Pama-Nyungan, Australia) has
been previously analyzed as a 'change of state'marker indicating some proposition is false …