Conditional constructions in Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language

Lopit is an Eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan. It has a number of ways of expressing conditionals. The most common way involves the use of the subordinate clause marker l- on the clause-initial verb which introduces the protasis. This marker is also used in other clauses which are not conditio...

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Autor principal:	Jonathan Moodie
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:075e98b4ee1046b7805110bd072a6d182021-11-19T03:52:07ZConditional constructions in Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language10.32473/sal.v46i1.1072420039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/075e98b4ee1046b7805110bd072a6d182017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107242https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XLopit is an Eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan. It has a number of ways of expressing conditionals. The most common way involves the use of the subordinate clause marker l- on the clause-initial verb which introduces the protasis. This marker is also used in other clauses which are not conditionals. There is also the conjunction lojo, ‘if, when’, which can introduce the protasis. Another method is the use of the irrealis, the conditional and the potential mode of the verb in the protasis. The first method appears not to be used in other Eastern Nilotic languages.Jonathan MoodieLibraryPress@UFarticleconditionalLopitNiloticPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 46, Iss 1 (2017)
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description	Lopit is an Eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan. It has a number of ways of expressing conditionals. The most common way involves the use of the subordinate clause marker l- on the clause-initial verb which introduces the protasis. This marker is also used in other clauses which are not conditionals. There is also the conjunction lojo, ‘if, when’, which can introduce the protasis. Another method is the use of the irrealis, the conditional and the potential mode of the verb in the protasis. The first method appears not to be used in other Eastern Nilotic languages.
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title	Conditional constructions in Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language
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Conditional constructions in Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language

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