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Publication details [#5281]
Kalmar, Ivan. 1982. The function of Inuktitut verb modes in narrative texts. In Hopper, Paul J., ed. Tense-Aspect: Between semantics and pragmatics. Containing the contributions to a symposium on tense and aspect, held at UCLA, May 1979. John Benjamins. pp. 45–64. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Annotation
The paper presents a new method for studying verb modes in Inuktitut narrative texts. The method results in a theory offering a consistent framework for the explanation of how modes function in the language.