The semantic contribution of the past tense morpheme kaan in Palestinian counterfactuals

IF 0.2 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Hadil Karawani, H. Zeijlstra
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Abstract

Reasoning along the lines of Iatridou (2000), we argue in this paper that the Palestinian morpheme kaan that is normally used to express semantic past tense actually denotes Non-Actual Veridicality, i.e. including kaan states that the proposition it applies to is true in a different world-time pair than the pair consisting of the actual world and the time of utterance. This means that kaan can be used both as a tense marker (expressing past tense) and as a mood marker (expressing counterfactuality). Given that every clause (with the possible exception of imperative clauses) must be tensed, this entails that kaan, in the absence of any other tense marker, must receive a temporal interpretation; but if the sentence receives its tense interpretation from some other particle, kaan acts as a mood marker. In the remainder of the paper, several consequences of this proposal are discussed.
巴勒斯坦语反事实句中过去时语素kaan的语义贡献
根据Iatridou(2000)的推理,我们在本文中认为,通常用于表达语义过去时的巴勒斯坦语素kaan实际上表示非实际真实性,即包括kaan声明,它所适用的命题在不同的世界-时间对中是真实的,而不是由实际世界和话语时间组成的对。这意味着kaan既可以用作时态标记(表示过去时),也可以用作情绪标记(表示反事实)。鉴于每个分句(祈使句可能除外)都必须是有时态的,这就意味着,在没有任何其他时态标记的情况下,kaan必须得到时间解释;但如果句子的时态解释来自其他语气词,则kaan充当语气标记。在本文的其余部分,讨论了这一建议的几个后果。
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
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