Reality status in Teiwa (Papuan)

Klamer, Marian

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2011.08.006

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“…This is quite a surprising result given that realis is the mood of main assertions. However, there are formal parallels in other languages: for instance, in Teiwa (Papuan) irrealis has no overt expression, while realis is signalled by a morphological marker (Klamer, 2012). From a function viewpoint, we find at least partial parallels in some analyses of the subjunctive.…”

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Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir

Matić

Nikolaeva

2014

Lingua

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The nature and the typological validity of the categories ‘realis’ and ‘irrealis’ has been a matter of intensive debate. In this paper we analyse the realis/irrealis dichotomy in Tundra Yukaghir (isolate, north-eastern Siberia), and show that in this language realis is associated with a meaningful contribution, namely, existential quantification over events. This contribution must be expressed overtly by a combination of syntactic and prosodic means. Irrealis is the default category: the clause is interpreted as irrealis in the absence of the marker of realis. This implies that the relevant typological question may turn out to be the semantics of realis, rather than irrealis. We further argue that the Tundra Yukaghir realis is a hybrid category composed of elements from different domains (information structure, lexical semantics, and quantification) unified at the level of interpretation via pragmatic enrichment. The concept of notional mood must therefore be expanded to include moods which come about in interpretation and do not constitute a discrete denotation

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Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir

Matić

Nikolaeva

2014

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“…Additional materials and several monograph-length treatments of particular topics have also appeared for these TAP languages as well as others. Most significant are: for Abui, an introductory dictionary (Kratochvíl and Delpada 2008a) and texts (Kratochvíl and Delpada 2008b); for Bunaq, a short dictionary (Bele 2009); for Fataluku, a monolingual dictionary (Valentim 2002), a sketch (Hull 2005a), primer materials and texts (Valentim 2001a(Valentim , 2001b(Valentim , 2004a(Valentim , 2004b; for Kamang, an introductory dictionary (Schapper and Manimau 2011); for Makalero, a short dictionary (Pinto 2004) and a primer (Pinto 2007); for Makasae, Masters theses on space (Brotherson 2003) genres (Carr 2004) and phonology (Fogaça 2011), a sketch (Hull 2005b), and two short dictionaries (Ximenes andMenezes 2002, Hull andCorreira 2006); for Oirata, a sketch with Josselin de Jong's (1937) text glossed (Faust 2005), and a historical phonological treatment (Mandala 2010); for Teiwa, an extended word list (Klamer and Sir 2011); for Western Pantar, an introductory dictionary (Holton and Lamma Koly 2008).…”

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“…The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) has deposits for several west Alor languages (Baird 2015a(Baird , 2015b(Baird , 2015c and for Western Pantar (Holton 2012). Materials for numerous TAP languages are found in The Language Archive including in the collections of Huber ( 2013), Klamer et al (2015) and Klamer et al (2019). Whilst all these collections are made by and for linguists, there are also archival collections including TAP language materials by researchers from other fields.…”

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1. Introduction to The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Volume 3

Schapper¹

2020

The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 3

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The Historical Relations of the Papuan Languages of Alor and Pantar

Holton¹,

Klamer²,

Kratochvíl³

et al. 2012

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The historical relations of the Papuan languages scattered across the islands of the Alor archipelago, Timor, and Kisar in southeast Indonesia have remained largely conjectural. This paper makes a first step towards demonstrating that the languages of Alor and Pantar form a single genealogical group. Applying the comparative method to primary lexical data from twelve languages sampled across the islands of the Alor-Pantar archipelago, we use form-meaning pairings in basic cognate sets to establish regular sound correspondences that support the view these languages as genetically related. We reconstruct 97 Proto-Alor-Pantar vocabulary items and propose an internal subgrouping based on shared innovations. Finally, we compare Alor-Pantar with Papuan languages of Timor and with Trans-New Guinea languages, concluding that there is no lexical evidence supporting the inclusion of Alor-Pantar languages in the Trans-New Guinea family.

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Reality status in Teiwa (Papuan)

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Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir

Realis mood, focus, and existential closure in Tundra Yukaghir

1. Introduction to The Papuan languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Volume 3

The Historical Relations of the Papuan Languages of Alor and Pantar

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