Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1103334 | Language Sciences | 2012 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Teiwa realis is encoded as an inflectional verbal suffix, irrealis is unexpressed. ⺠Realis inflection marks events as actual and located in the real world. ⺠Realis may extend into subjective value of expected or presupposed reality. ⺠The discourse function of realis is to mark main foregrounded narrative events.
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Authors
Marian Klamer,