@article{8560075,
  abstract     = {This article offers a synchronic and diachronic analysis of the use and meaning of the verbal prefix-andi-in the Great Lakes Bantu language Luganda (JE15). On the basis of a text corpus of 4 million tokens, we show that the prefix, commonly described as a conditional marker, is primarily involved in the expression of modal meanings, specifically deontic necessity and epistemic possibility. Our thirteen-decade diachronic corpus analysis shows that there is a relationship between the increased use of-andi-outside syntactically complex conditional constructions, i.e. those having both a protasis and an apodosis, and an increase in its expression of modal meanings. Moreover, a reduction in the use of-andiin complex conditional constructions goes hand in hand with a reduction in its expression of conditional meanings. It is further revealed that contrary to the common cross-linguistic tendency to rely on modality as a source for conditionality, the conditional meaning of-andi-is not post-modal. Instead it was primarily a conditional marker, which subsequently developed different modal meanings. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
  author       = {Kawalya, Deo and de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice and Bostoen, Koen},
  issn         = {0378-2166},
  journal      = {JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS},
  language     = {eng},
  pages        = {84--106},
  publisher    = {Elsevier Science Bv},
  title        = {From conditionality to modality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15) : a synchronic and diachronic corpus analysis of the verbal prefix -andi-},
  url          = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.01.011},
  volume       = {127},
  year         = {2018},
}

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