The expression of modality in Logoori

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Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1515/jall-2020-2010

John Gluckman, Margit Bowler

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Abstract

Abstract This study presents a theoretically informed description of the expression of modality in Logoori (Luyia; Bantu). We document verbal and non-verbal modal expressions in Logoori, and show how these expressions fit into proposed typologies of modal systems (Kratzer, Angelika. 1981. The notional category of modality. In Hans-Jurgen Eikmeyer & Hannes Rieser (eds.), Words, worlds, and contexts: New approaches in word semantics, 38–74. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, Kratzer, Angelika. 1991. Modality. In Armin von Stechow & Dieter Wunderlich (eds.), Semantics: An international handbook of contemporary research, 639–650. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter; van der Auwera, Johan & Vladimir Plungian. 1998. Modality’s semantic map. Linguistic Typology 2. 79–124. https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.1998.2.1.79; Nauze, Fabrice. 2008. Modality in typological perspective. Amsterdam: Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation PhD thesis). We show that Logoori’s modal system raises some interesting questions regarding the typology and theoretical analysis of modality and its relationship to other kinds of meaning. Our study contributes to the nascent but growing research on modal systems cross linguistically by adding data from an understudied Bantu language.

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洛戈里语中情态的表达

摘要本研究对洛戈里语（Luyia；Bantu）中情态的表达进行了理论上的描述。我们在Logoori中记录了言语和非言语模态表达，并展示了这些表达如何融入所提出的模态系统类型（Kratzer，Angelika.1981）。模态的概念范畴。Hans-Jurgen Eikmeyer和Hannes Rieser（编辑），《单词、世界和语境：单词语义的新方法》，38-74。柏林：Mouton de Gruyter，Kratzer，Angelika。1991.模态。Armin von Stechow和Dieter Wunderlich（编辑），《语义学：当代研究国际手册》，639-650。柏林：Mouton de Gruyter；van der Auwera，Johan和Vladimir Plungian。1998，情态的语义图。语言类型学2。79–124。https://doi.org/10.1515/lity.1998.2.1.79；Nauze，Fabrice。2008年，从类型学角度看情态。阿姆斯特丹：逻辑、语言和计算研究所博士论文）。我们发现，洛戈里的情态系统提出了一些有趣的问题，涉及情态的类型学和理论分析，以及它与其他意义的关系。我们的研究通过添加研究不足的班图语的数据，为跨语言的模态系统研究做出了贡献。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics was founded in 1979 and has established itself as an important refereed forum for publications in African linguistics. The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics welcomes original contributions on all aspects of African language studies, synchronic as well as diachronic, theoretical as well as data-oriented. The journal further contains a list of recently published books on African languages and linguistics, which many libraries find to be of use for the acquisition of books. The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope.