'Realis' and 'irrealis' in Wogeo: A valid category?
| dc.contributor.author | Exter, Mats | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-12-20T22:51:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-12-20T22:51:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-12-20 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Finite verb forms in Wogeo, an Austronesian language of New Guinea, are obligatorily marked with a portmanteau prefix denoting person and number of the subject on the one hand, and a grammatical category that is conventionally glossed in the literature as realis–irrealis, on the other. In similar languages, the latter category is usually described as modal, with a certain range of meanings which is, in many cases, only vaguely defined. A more in-depth investigation of the verbal system of Wogeo and the functional distribution of the respective categories shows, however, that the language is quite different from a postulated prototypical realis–irrealis language. Central attributes of the supposed realis–irrealis semantics are not realized by the obligatory prefixes but by other morphosyntactic means, while the prefixes are restricted to only a small part of the assumed realis–irrealis domain. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Foreign Language Resource Center | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-9856211-2-4 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4564 | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawai'i Press | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | LD&C Special Publication | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ | |
| dc.title | 'Realis' and 'irrealis' in Wogeo: A valid category? | |
| dc.type | Book Chapter | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |