还能说什么呢？

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Studies in Language Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI:10.1075/sl.22074.cra

T. Crane, Remah Lubambo, M Petrus Mabena, Cordelia Nkwinika, Muhle Sibisi, Onelisa Slater

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摘要

我们采用聚类方法探讨了南非四种恩古尼语（isiNdebele、isiZulu、isiXhosa 和 Siswati）中几种模态可能性标记（"潜在 "前缀 nga- 和表达式，大致意思是 "知道如何 "和 "能够"）的比较语义图谱。我们还将 Nguni 语的结果与 Xitsonga 语的结果进行了比较，Xitsonga 语是 Nguni 支系之外的一种密切相关的语言。这些语言在核心意义的扩展方面表现出跨语言的差异，其中一些似乎并不遵循跨语言的共同的非同步模式，即目标导向模态先于行为模态。此外，固有能力和学习能力之间的区别在其中几种语言中也很突出。标记符号功能分布的语义图进一步显示了模态系统的多样性，即使是在相互之间有大量接触的近亲语言中也能发现这种多样性。

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What can be said?

We employ a cluster approach to explore the comparative semantic maps of several markers of modal possibility – the “potential” prefix nga‑ and expressions meaning, roughly, ‘know how to’ and ‘be able to’ – in four South African Nguni languages: isiNdebele, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Siswati. We also compare the Nguni results with results from Xitsonga, a closely related language outside of the Nguni clade. The languages exhibit cross-linguistic differences in the expansion of core meanings, some of which do not appear to follow the cross-linguistically common diachronic pattern in which goal-oriented modality precedes deontic modality. In addition, the distinction between inherent and learned ability is salient in several of these languages. Semantic maps of the markers’ functional distributions further show the diversity of modal systems that can be found even in closely related languages in significant contact with one another.

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Studies in Language Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Studies in Language provides a forum for the discussion of issues in contemporary linguistics from discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspectives. Areas of central concern are: discourse grammar; syntactic, morphological and semantic universals; pragmatics; grammaticalization and grammaticalization theory; and the description of problems in individual languages from a discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspective. Special emphasis is placed on works which contribute to the development of discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological theory and which explore the application of empirical methodology to the analysis of grammar.