1988

This paper proposes a new analysis of the aspectual system of Alsea — specifically, the way temporal boundaries are marked. The only existing grammar, a manuscript by Leo J. Frachtenberg (1918), gives an unclear picture of how time is marked in Alsea. Frachtenberg describes the suffix -ai≥ as the ‘inchoative’, which I consider to be basically correct, but calls -x a ‘verbalizing suffix’ which is ‘dropped’ under ill-defined circumstances (p.ּ149f). I argue that this -x is actually a COMPLETIVE marker which indicates the final boundary of an event in time, while the INCHOATIVE, conversely, marks the initial boundary. Together they constitute the primary means by which Alsea codes the temporal nature of an event.1

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