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- Title
The realis <sup>1</sup> and irrealis distinction in the Iquito <sup>2</sup> language.
- Authors
LAI, I-wen
- Abstract
This paper discusses the structural characteristics and the semantic properties of realis and irrealis mood in Iquito, a highly endangered Zaparoan language spoken in the northern Peruvian Amazonia. The grammatical expression of mood is conveyed through a typologically unique strategy, word order change and vowel-hiatus resolution. The assignment of realis vs. irrealis reflects the speaker's assessment of factuality or time. This study adds another dimension to the close connections among tense and mood, and contributes to linguistic documentation of Iquito and Amazonian languages, and to research on crosslinguistic variation of temporal semantics.
- Subjects
IQUITO language; MOOD (Grammar); SEMANTICS; TENSE (Grammar); GRAMMAR
- Publication
Cahiers Chronos, 2012, Vol 25, p199
- ISSN
1384-5357
- Publication type
Article