Irrealis in Pilaga and Toba? Syntactic versus Pragmatic Coding  

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KLEIN, HARRIET E. MANELIS ; Vidal, Alejandra

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 40 no. 2 (1998), page 175-197.
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Despite the agglutinative tendency encountered in the grammars of roba and Pilaga (both Guaykuruan languages), verbs do not exhibit tense and nood categories. We argue that" irrealis" is signaled by the' distal' markers ga' n Pilaga and ka. in Toba. We show that signaling is at the pragmatic level of coding, and not yet at the syntactic level. 'Distal' deictics occur attached to lemonstratives and proforms, nouns, and interrogative words in declarative tnd nondeclarative speech acts. They apply to any nominal participant perceived as 'absent' or 'unknown '. From the stance of both the speaker and the learer, ga' and ka. may pragmatically code that the event in question has not )een realized, is hypothetical, or is a future projection. In addition, we hypothisize a diachronic path for development of negative existential constructions in these languages and a possible relationship between the' distal' markers, negation," and U irrealis."

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