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Conditional markers

import Linglib.Semantics.Conditionals.Typology · namespace Conditional

Source

Languages may lexicalize the readings of a conditional: Japanese -ra and German falls mark only hypothetical conditionals, while nara, wenn and English if mark either. A conditional marker is an exponent together with the readings it can mark.

Main definitions

Implementation notes

The sources often attest a marker with one reading and say nothing about the other, so a marker's readings are recorded as an interval of sets of readings: the readings it is attested marking below, the readings it is not known to exclude above. A marker the sources describe fully has a one-point interval.

References

Declarations

A conditional marker is an exponent together with the readings it can mark. Japanese -ra and German falls mark only hypothetical conditionals, and nara, wenn and English if mark either (Lassiter 2025).

structure MarkerL34–45
:
Type
  • morphs : List Morphology.Morph

    The exponent, in surface order.

  • script : Option String

    Native script form, when distinct.

  • readings : NonemptyInterval (Finset Reading)

    The set of readings the marker can mark lies in this interval: it contains the readings the sources attest, and is contained in the readings they do not exclude.

Derives DecidableEq.

Used by Marker.form

Used in Fragments/English/Conditionals, Fragments/German/Conditionals, Fragments/Japanese/Conditionals, Fragments/Mandarin/Conditionals, Lassiter2025 and 1 more