Cyclic tense: discontinuous temporal reference in Djambarrpuyŋu

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*short text abstract* This paper presents a formal proposal for the semantics of Djambarrpuyŋu tense and temporal reference (djr; Yolŋu Matha, Pama-Nyungan: Northern Australia). On the basis of novel data, elicited in the field, it comprises the first formal treatment of “cyclic tense” phenomena, where formal devices encoding temporal remoteness are ostensibly “recycled” (this term due to Comrie 1985: 88) and posits a hypothesis about the diachronic development of cyclic tense systems.

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