The distribution and use of aahk- modality in Kainai Blackfoot

Lewis, Blake

The distribution and use of aahk- modality in Kainai Blackfoot

dc.contributor.author	Lewis, Blake
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-24T21:44:25Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-24T21:44:25Z
dc.date.issued	2014-09
dc.description.abstract	This study investigates the distribution and use of modality in Kainai Blackfoot in the presence of the morpheme aahk-. By using utterance in context tasks and judgement tasks, I elicited data from three native speakers. This study is limited to combinations of strong and weak modals of the epistemic and deontic type. Modality that uses aahk- in Kainai Blackfoot consists of the combination of the morpheme aahk- and a second (optional) morpheme, which join as a single lexical item based on negation use and surface order. Kainai Blackfoot makes a four-way modal distinction. One distinction is between strong and weak modals and a second is made between epistemic and deontic type modals. However, the weak modals have a level of overlap and can be ambiguous.	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Lewis, B. (2014). The distribution and use of aahk- modality in Kainai Blackfoot. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 28(Fall), 49-63.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28989
dc.identifier.issn	2371-2643
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51478
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Calgary	en_US
dc.publisher.department	Linguistics	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en_US
dc.subject	Linguistics	en_US
dc.subject	Algonquian languages	en_US
dc.subject	Blackfoot	en_US
dc.subject	Siksika language	en_US
dc.subject	Morphology	en_US
dc.subject	Syntax	en_US
dc.subject	Modality	en_US
dc.title	The distribution and use of aahk- modality in Kainai Blackfoot	en_US
dc.type	journal article