Habituality in four Oceanic languages of Melanesia

Kilu von Prince; Anna Krajinovic; Anna Margetts; Nick Thieberger; Valerie Guerin

doi:10.1515/stuf-2019-0002

Habituality in four Oceanic languages of Melanesia

Kilu von Prince, Anna Krajinovic, Anna Margetts, Nick Thieberger, Valerie Guerin

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Abstract

Our knowledge about tense, aspect and modality (TMA) in the Oceanic languages of Melanesia has so far been severely limited by the lack of available data. Habituality in particular, as one of the less described TMA categories, has not yet been widely discussed for this group of languages. Based on corpus data and elicitations, we give a detailed overview of four languages, identifying common trends and addressing specific questions of general concern. These include the relation of habituality to (im)perfectivity and the relation between habituality and irrealis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	21-66
Number of pages	46
Journal	STUF - Language Typology and Universals
Volume	72
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2019-0002
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2020

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Aspect
Modality
Oceanic
Reduplication

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