The Nanti reality status system: Implications for the typological validity of the realis/irrealis contrast

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 251-288

  Michael, Lev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Arawak; Inflection; Modality; Mood; Nanti; Realis irrealis; Reality status; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925784141     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2014-0011     Document Type: Article

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