Expressions of futurity in the Vilamovicean language
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2010
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Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University
Abstract
The present paper aims at presenting all major morphosyntactic means of expressing future meaning in
Vilamovicean, the smallest Germanic language spoken in the town of Wilamowice in Southern
Poland. As will be demonstrated – and contrary to the opinion found in the literature published so far –
the concept of futurity is not limited to the wada future but, rather, can be conveyed by a number of
constructions. These forms may be divided into two main groups: the first one includes formations that
are employed with no restriction by all speakers (among others these are constructions like the present
tense, the periphrases wada + infinitive, wjyd + past participle or adverbials, wada hon/zajn + past
participle, and zuła + infinitive, as well as various modally based future expressions) while the second
class consists of two novel and "rare" locutions which are accepted uniquely by a limited number of
speakers (this group includes locutions such as wada + past participle and wada + present).
Furthermore, two other Vilamovicean periphrases will be discussed, namely wie + past participle and
wie + present, which, even though restricted to the conditional value, display a similar morphosyntactic
shape as the "rare futures".
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CITATION: Andrason, A. 2010. Expressions of futurity in the Vilamovicean language. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 40:1-10, doi:10.5842/40-0-1.
The original publication is available at http://spilplus.journals.ac.za
The original publication is available at http://spilplus.journals.ac.za
Keywords
Germanic languages, Vilamovicean language, Germanic languages -- Verb, Verbal system, Future
Citation
Andrason, A. 2010. Expressions of futurity in the Vilamovicean language. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics PLUS, 40, 1-10, doi: 10.5842/40-0-1.