Aspect and tense in the Bisu language

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Berkeley: University of California. In Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 183-197.

Bisu is a Burmese - Yipho language spoken in southwestern China and Thailand. There are six aspects in Bisu: immediate, habitual, progressive, continuous, conclusive, and experiential. This paper is a preliminary study of aspect and tense in the dialect of Bisu spoken in Lancang County, Yunnan Province, China.

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Языки и языкознание;Лолойские языки

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