ConSOLE 31 2023 • Bielefeld University

Aspect-marked copula in Bangla

Srabasti Dey

Autonomous University of Barcelona

srabasti.dey@uab.cat
Bangla syntaxAspect-marked copulaEquative clauses

Abstract

This paper looks at aspect-marked copulas that are obligatory only for matrix equative clauses in the present tense in the Eastern Indo-Aryan language Bangla. It looks into the nature of present tense in copular constructions and tries to account for these quirky copulas through the interaction of the structure of equative clauses and the role of temporal arguments involved in yielding present tense in copular constructions.

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Srabasti Dey (2023). aspect-marked copula in bangla. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 31, edited by Iva Kovač, Paul Meisenbichler, Atefeh Shahbazi, Hadis Tamleh, Maximilian Wiesner, (pp. 392–410).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{dey-copula-2023, title={Aspect-marked copula in Bangla}, author={Srabasti Dey}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 31}, year={2023}, pages={392–410}, editor={Iva Kovač and Paul Meisenbichler and Atefeh Shahbazi and Hadis Tamleh and Maximilian Wiesner} }

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