0 | no | 8 | |
1 | yes | 26 | |
? | missing value | 0 |
Uralic Areal Typology feature UT026
Is there morphological marking for irrealis (e.g. hypothetical state of affairs)?
It is possible to distinguish between events that have actualised (realis) and events that can only be imagined or wished for (irrealis) (Mithun 1995). This question asks whether morphological marking is used to encode events regarded as nonactualised; see conditional marking used in example (1). (Various terms may be used, e.g. conditional, conjunctive, subjunctive.)
(1) Estonian
Ma ela-ksi-n maa-l, kui saa-ksi-n
1SG live-COND-1SG country_side-ADE if can-COND-1SG
'I would live in the countryside if I could'
Coding. The value is '1' if morphological marking is used to denote events regarded as nonactualised.
References.
Mithun, Marianne. 1995. On the Relativity of Irreality. In Joan L. Bybee & Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), Modality in Grammar and Discourse (Typological Studies in Language 32), 367-388. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.32.16mit.
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