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  Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Linguistics

Typological tools for field linguistics

 

Tenses, Moods and Aspects Questionnaire

Description
This is primarily a typological study of tense and aspect systems. The appendix contains a translation questionnaire used for surveying contexts in which tense and aspect markers are used.

This page contains links to the questionnaires used as the basis for Osten Dahl's typological study of tenses, moods and aspects. The link labeled Tenses, Moods and Aspects (TMA) Questionnaire connects to Dahl's typological study including an appendix containing the TMA questionnaire. The link labeled Tense and aspect in the Languages of Europe connects to separate questionnaires with instructions on the perfect and progressive aspects. Dahl's typological study constitutes a guide to the intended us of the questionnaires.

The questionnaires
Tenses, Moods and Aspects Questionnaire
Tense and aspect in the Languages of Europe
Questionaire in Toolbox format

Developed by
ึsten Dahl

Other Eurotypes Questionnaire