Actionality, Aspect, Tense, and Counterfactuality in Kuban Kabardian

This paper presents the fieldwork data on the interaction of actionality, aspect, and tense in counterfactual conditional clauses of the Kuban dialect of Kabardian, a polysynthetic Northwest Caucasian language. Kabardian shows non-trivial similarities to Romance languages in its use of the Imperfective Past suffix as a marker of counterfactuality — alone or as a part of the complex marker of the Pluperfect marker where the Imperfect attaches to the Preterite (perfective past). I show that the choice between several types of marking in counterfactual protases (the plain Imperfect, the Pluperfect, and the simple Preterite) primarily depends on actional class and viewpoint aspect: perfective counterfactuals employ either the Pluperfect or the Preterite, while imperfective counterfactuals require the Imperfect, which is in line with the more general distribution of these tense-aspect forms. Theoretical implications of the tense-aspect marking in Kuban Kabardian counterfactual conditionals are also briefly discussed

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Arkadiev Peter M. [Рецензия] [Электронный ресурс] / Peter М. Arkadiev// LINGUIST List 23.4022. - 2012. - Fri Sep 28 2012

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Arkadiev Peter M. [Рецензия] [Электронный ресурс] / Peter M. Arkadiev// LINGUIST List 23.1803. - 2012. - Mon Apr 09 2012

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Arkadiev Peter M. [Рецензия] [Электронный ресурс] / Peter M. Arkadiev// Linguistic Typology. - 2011. - Vol. 15, Issue 3. - P. 661-669

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Arkadiev Peter M. [Рецензия] [Электронный ресурс] / Peter M. Arkadiev// Linguistic Typology. - 2011. - Vol. 15, Issue 3. - P. 661-669

Stems in Lithuanian verbal inflection (with remarks on derivation)

Arkadiev Peter M. Stems in Lithuanian verbal inflection (with remarks on derivation) [Электронный ресурс] / Peter М. Arkadiev// Word Structure. - 2012. - Vol. 5 (1). - P. 7-27

Stems in Lithuanian verbal inflection (with remarks on derivation)

Arkadiev Peter M. Stems in Lithuanian verbal inflection (with remarks on derivation) [Электронный ресурс] / Peter М. Arkadiev// Word Structure. - 2012. - Vol. 5 (1). - P. 7-27

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Arkadiev Peter M. [Рецензия] [Электронный ресурс] / Peter M. Arkadiev// LINGUIST List 23.1803. - 2012. - Mon Apr 09 2012

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Arkadiev Peter M. [Рецензия] [Электронный ресурс] / Peter М. Arkadiev// LINGUIST List 23.4022. - 2012. - Fri Sep 28 2012