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      Exploring mood in neverver

      Barbour, Julie Renee
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      Barbour, J.R. (2011). Exploring mood in neverver. Oceanic Linguistics, 50(1), 198-220.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5773
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      In a preverbal position, all clauses in the Neverver language of Malakula Island (Vanuatu) are either unmarked, or carry the morpheme m- prefixed to the verb. In this paper, I explore the distribution of unmarked and mmarked clauses, examining a number of semantic and grammatical contexts. I seek to establish whether the choice of using an unmarked clause or an m-marked clause is driven by the temporal location of the situation expressed in the clause, or by the status of that situation in reality. In doing so, I aim to test my earlier analysis of Neverver as being a mood language. The results, however, are divided, with temporal location appearing to be more salient in some contexts, and reality status appearing to be more salient in others. Relying predominantly on evidence from a variety of subordinate clause types, I maintain that Neverver is indeed a mood language, although an interpretation of the same morphological category as grammatical tense is certainly plausible in some contexts.
      Date
      2011-06
      Type
      Journal Article
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      University of Hawaii Press
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      This article has been published in the journal: Oceanic Linguistics. © 2011 University of Hawaii Press.
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