St’át’imcets frustratives as not-at-issue modals

This paper provides an analysis of the ‘frustrative’ marker séna7 in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish), and compares it to similar elements cross-linguistically. Séna7 appears in a range of discourse contexts, including when events have an unexpected outcome, fail to continue, or fail to take place opt...

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Main Authors: Davis Henry, Matthewson Lisa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-09-01
Series:Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0211
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