Irrealis is real

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ID3021226
AutoresKilu Von Prince (0000-0003-4845-4178), Ana Krajinović (0000-0002-0858-7606), Manfred Krifka (0000-0002-9610-8352)
Año2022
Volumen98
Número2
Páginas221-249
Fecha de publicación2022-06-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/lan.2022.0009
OpenAlexW4283520867
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11

The question of whether Irrealis is a meaningful concept in crosslinguistic comparison has been the subject of long-standing controversy. In this article, we argue that the semantic domain of irreality is split into two domains—the possible and the counterfactual—and that an ‘irrealis’ marker in a given language may refer either to only one of these domains or to both. A significant part of the crosslinguistic variation in what is referred to by the term irrealis can be traced back to this distinction. Other factors that obscure the realis/irrealis divide include functional subdivisions of the irrealis domain and paradigmatic competition within the TAM system of a language. We conclude that ‘irrealis’ is a crosslinguistically meaningful notion

Counterfactual thinking · Domain (mathematical analysis) · Epistemology · Linguistics · Property (philosophy) · Subject (documents) · Variation (astronomy) · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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