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Modality in Kakataibo
- This paper explores the semantic space of modality in Kakataibo (Panoan). It is found that Kakataibo makes a distinction in the modal space based on the modality type. Circumstantial modality is encoded by a construction while the epistemic space is conveyed by the second position enclitics =dapi ‘inferential’, =id ‘second-hand information’ and =kuni ‘contrastive assertion’. However, none of these strategies to encode modality restricts the quantificational force, leaving it underspecified. These facts are consistent with the predictions of current typologies of modal systems.
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| Author details: | Daniel Valle |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-83784 |
| ISSN: | 1614-4708 |
| ISSN: | 1866-4725 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 |
| Publisher: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
| Place of publishing: | Potsdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2015 |
| Publication year: | 2015 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2015/11/13 |
| Tag: | Kakataibo; conversational background; modality; quantificational force |
| Issue: | 19 |
| First page: | 111 |
| Last Page: | 137 |
| Organizational units: | Zentrale und wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen / Sonderforschungsbereich 632 - Informationsstruktur |
| DDC classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2015) 19 |
| License (German): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
