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• Antonio Castillo Ramirez (DDL/Université de Sonora)

dans le cadre DILIS

The ability to express time is essential to human interaction. All human languages have developed a range of devices –lexical, grammatical and discursive− that allow speakers to express temporality. Among the grammatical devices that have received special attention are tense, aspect and mood/reality status. In fact, tense is particularly important in this regard as it has been defined as the grammaticalization of time (Comrie 1985); hence, languages tend to be classified as tensed, mixed-temporal or tenseless (Smith 2008). In this talk, I will present some progress from my doctoral thesis concerning the devices used in Yanesha', an Arawak language of the Peruvian Amazonia, to express temporality. Since Yanesha' is a tenseless language (it lacks markers for present, past, or future), it relies on other means to temporally locate a situation. I will focus on the categories of periodic tense (Jacques 2023), nominal past, and reality status.