The semantics and pragmatics of composite mood marking: The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 223-268

  Verstraete, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Counterfactuality; Gricean maxims; Implicature; Irrealis; Modality; Mood; Negation; Non Pama Nyungan; Tense

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846874001     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lity.2005.9.2.223     Document Type: Review

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