Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Tense, but in the Mood: Diachronic Perspectives on the Representation of Time in Ao (Coupe)
This week's typological paper is all about time; specifically, it's on the representation of time in the Tibeto-Burman language Ao. As this is a quite specific topic, I ventured to expand the prompts a bit beyond what the paper actually talks about. Now onto said prompts:
- How does your language handle tense, aspect and mood?
- How do they interact? Are there any restrictions on how they interact?
- Any notable allomorphy going on regarding the morphemes that encode TAM in your conlang?
- If you considered diachronics while constructing your language, how did TAM evolve? How did it change?
- Were there any grammaticalization processes going on?
- How does modality combine with the other TAM categories? (Presupposing they are distinct)
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So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!