Tense, Aspect and Mood in Mesqan
| dc.contributor.advisor | Meyer, Ronny (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Eshetu, Meseret | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-05T08:37:34Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T04:34:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-05T08:37:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T04:34:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study takes Mesqan as its target language. The researcher has taken over the task of describing the tense, aspect and mood system of Mesqan verbs. Besides, the researcher seeks to achieve the following specific objectives. i. Describe the distinction between tense and aspect. ii Identify the grammatical markers of tense, aspect and mood of the language. ii. Analyze whether Mesqan is primarily a tense or aspect language. Mesqan verbs are primarily marked for aspect, i.e. they have distinct grammatical base forms for the perfective and imperfective aspects. In addition to this, subject agreement markers are distinct for the two aspects. In this language tense is expressed by means of auxiliaries: past by the auxiliary bannä and non-past by the auxiliary –u. besides, the perfective and the imperfective verb forms may or may not appear with visible tense markers. If there is no visible tense marker the perfective form is associated with past reading and the imperfective with non –past and/or habitual meanings. If there is visible tense marker, the progressive reading is obtained by the combination of the imperfective form of the verb and the non-past auxiliary –u; whereas the habitual reading is obtained by the imperfective form of the verb and the past auxiliary bannä. Mesqan verbs are also marked for mood. There are distinct grammatical base forms for the jussive/imperative mood. Besides, obligation and ability are expressed by periphrastic constructions. In addition, the perfective form can be combined with the converb marker –m to denote a reading of present perfect and with the past auxiliary bannä to denote a reading of past perfect. With regard to the third objective, Mesqan is an aspect based language. In this language tense is secondary and it is mostly based on imperfective aspect. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/6635 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tense | en_US |
| dc.title | Tense, Aspect and Mood in Mesqan | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |