Elzbieta Thurgood

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elzbieta Thurgood is involved.

Article

Thurgood, Elzbieta and Graham Thurgood 1996 Aspect, Tense, or Aktionsart? The Particle Ja in Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:1, pp. 45–70 | Article

This paper attempts to determine whether the particle ja in Kristang (spoken in Malacca, Malaysia) functions as part of an aspect, a tense, or an aktionsart system. The paper first argues that ja does not mark the perfective in an aspectual system. Second, it argues that ja does not mark the past… read more