The Tense, Aspect and Modality System in Murrinh-Patha

Nordlinger, Rachel; Caudal, Patrick

doi:10.1080/07268602.2012.657754

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“…It is as of yet largely unknown how traditional languages of Australia fit into this typology, as there are at present few systematic studies into how modality is expressed. Most of the existing work in this area explores modal and mood systems in non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia (Bednall 2019;McGregor and Wagner 2006;Nordlinger and Caudal 2012;Schultze-Berndt and Caudal 2016;Verstraete 2005); outside of Northern Australia there has been very little work on modal expression (Bell 1988;Bednall 2011Bednall , 2020 being some relevant exceptions). This paper is a step towards addressing this gap in the literature by exploring an expression that is used to express root modal meanings in Pintupi-Luritja (Western Desert, Pama Nyungan).…”

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“…There has been a surge of interest in this kind of modal variability in recent years, and work on less well-studied languages has contributed a great deal to our developing understanding of variation in the typology of modality (Bochnak 2015a;Deal 2011;Peterson 2010;Rullmann et al 2008). Traditional languages of Australia have not featured greatly in the discussion thus far, particularly outside of a number of Non-Pama-Nyungan languages of Northern Australia (Bednall 2019;McGregor and Wagner 2006;Nordlinger and Caudal 2012). In this paper, I document the modal contribution of this construction in Pintupi-Luritja and compare it to other examples of modal variability in the literature.…”

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Variable Modality in Pintupi-Luritja Purposive Clauses

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2021

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This paper investigates the modal and non-modal uses and readings of the purposive suffix in the Western Desert (Pama-Nyungan) language Pintupi-Luritja. It is shown that the suffix is associated with a range of root-modal readings, with some variability in modal force. The modal readings are investigated in a variety of non-upward-entailing environments and compared with those of other variable modal force languages as described in the literature. I suggest that the purposive suffix does not behave in the same way as in these languages, which suggests that the typology of variable force modality is not uniform. I conclude by suggesting a connection to the modality described in non-finite and nominalised environments in a number of other languages.

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Variable Modality in Pintupi-Luritja Purposive Clauses

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2021

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“…Murrinhpatha has received considerable linguistic attention over the last forty years. The complex verbal morphosyntax has been described from synchronic perspectives Nordlinger 2010a;2010b;Nordlinger and Caudal 2012;Street 1987;Walsh 1996;1987;1976), as well as diachronic and variationist perspectives (Blythe 2013;Green 2003;Mansfield 2014). Furthermore, the polysynthetic nature of Murrinhpatha is discussed in more detail in other chapters in this volume (see Chapter 19 by Evans, and Chapter 45 by Nordlinger).…”

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The Acquisition of Murrinhpatha (Northern Australia)

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This chapter reports on initial findings of an ongoing large-scale research project into the acquisition of Murrinhpatha, a polysynthetic language of the Daly River region of the Northern Territory of Australia with complex morphology. The complex verbal structures in Murrinhpatha, which can contain a large number of morphemes and bipartite stem morphology discontinuously distributed throughout the verbal template, raise a multitude of questions for acquisition. In this chapter we focus particularly on the acquisition of the complex predicate system in the verb, and the acquisition of subject-marking categories and tense/aspect/mood. Our findings are based on the language development of five Murrinhpatha acquiring children aged from 2;7–4;11 years.

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“…Previous research has described the language's genetic status (I. Green 2003), its complex verbal morphosyntax (Blythe 2009a;Nordlinger 2010b;Mansfield 2014;Street 1980;1987;Walsh 1976;1987), the system of nominal classification (Walsh 1993;, transitivity (Nordlinger 2011), the marking of tense, aspect and mood categories (Nordlinger and Caudal 2012;Mansfield 2014), and the kinship system (Blythe 2012;in press). The use of Murrinhpatha grammar in social interaction has been investigated with reference to persons (Blythe 2009a;, and repair practices (Blythe 2015).…”

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Pointing Out Directions in Murrinhpatha

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Rather than using abstract directionals, speakers of the Australian Aboriginal language Murrinhpatha make reference to locations of interest using named landmarks, demonstratives and pointing. Building on a culturally prescribed avoidance for certain placenames, this study reports on the use of demonstratives, pointing and landmarks for direction giving. Whether or not pointing will be used, and which demonstratives will be selected is determined partly by the relative epistemic incline between interlocutors and partly by whether information about a location is being sought or being provided. The reliance on pointing for the representation of spatial vectors requires a construal of language that includes the visuo-corporal modality.

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The Tense, Aspect and Modality System in Murrinh-Patha

Cited by 30 publications

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Variable Modality in Pintupi-Luritja Purposive Clauses

Variable Modality in Pintupi-Luritja Purposive Clauses

The Acquisition of Murrinhpatha (Northern Australia)

Pointing Out Directions in Murrinhpatha

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