Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Routes towards the irrealis (Sansò)
This week's paper was submitted by u/PyrolatrousCoagulate and presents how various languages evolved their irrealis mood. In this week's TyPoW you will not only be able to talk about your mood markers' diachrony, but also how they work without any respect to their development, i.e. in a synchronic fashion. Now onto today's prompts:
- How does your language express irreality or other semantic categories commonly encoded by irrealis mood?
- What other moods are there in your language? How are they marked morphologically?
- How are your conlang's moods used in discourse? What are their pragmatic implications?
- How did your irrealis moods develop over time? Did any of the paths mentioned in the paper find their way into your language?
Remember to try to comment on other people's languages
Submit your papers here!
So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!