THE DEONTIC MODAL EXPRESSIONS IN SHABAKI
Abstract
The present paper aims to identify the deontic modal
expressions in Shabaki and to describe their semantic interpretations
and means of expression. The corpus is based on the data excerpted
from everyday communication. They were observed to fall into two
types: directives (deontic possibility, deontic necessity, prohibition,
advice and recommendation) and commissives (promises and
threats). They were also categorized along formality and politeness
scales. These expressions in Shabaki cover a very wide range of
deontic meaning. Formally, they regularly tend to appear at the
beginning of the Shabaki sentence.
KEY WORDS:
Shabaki, modality, event, deontic, directives,
commissive