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Tense and Aspect in North-Western Edoid

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  • Simeon Olaogun

    (Department of Linguistics and Language, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko Ondo State, Nigeria)

  • Oluwaseun Oyelade

    (Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan, Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria)

Abstract

Tense and aspect are a universal category. That is, there is no natural language in the world that does not have some means of expressing the relationship between the time of an event and its reporting (tense) and the duration of an action expressed by the verb in a clause (aspect). However, the morpho/phono-syntactic features of tense and aspectual markers viz their distribution and interaction differ from one language to another. The paper, therefore, compares AÌ€beÌ€saÌ€beÌ€siÌ€ with OÌ€sseÌ , with a view to proposing a unified analysis for all of the distributional nuances of tense and aspect markers in these two subgroups. It is observed among other things that in AÌ€beÌ€saÌ€beÌ€siÌ€, each of tense and aspect realization has three forms conditioned by vowel harmony. Also, in AÌ€beÌ€saÌ€beÌ€siÌ€, perfective markers occur pre-verbally yielding to aspect-verb order but in Proto OÌ€sseÌ , they occur in clause final positions yielding to verb-aspect order. In an attempt to present a unified systematic account of the intra-and/or inter-lingual tense and aspect variations, the paper, using the minimalist program, argues that the aspectual head (Asp0) in Proto OÌ€sseÌ has Extended Projection Principle feature which is satisfied by pied-piping the whole VP to the specifier of Aspectual Phrase.

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  • Simeon Olaogun & Oluwaseun Oyelade, 2022. "Tense and Aspect in North-Western Edoid," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 6(10), pages 477-488, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:6:y:2022:i:10:p:477-488
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