Oral discourses modality in jujenian quechua

Abstract

In 2017, in Lagunillas de Farallón, Jujuy, Argentine, we registered ten oral discourses in Quechua of Jujuy people. The modality values were analyzed in three of them, which were transcribed in normalized Quechua. The modality is the linguistic form which results from the cognitive operation of validation applied to a representation. The objectives of this work are: a) to identify the modal segments based on some conceptual, functional parameters and a meta-parameter, and b) to recognize the Quechua modal operators at the phrase level according to the parameter level of the syntactic structure. The theoretical-methodological frame used is Gosselin’s Modular Theory (2010). As a result, we recognized the verbal construction presente habitual and the verbal causative suffix –chi as predicative operators of alethic modality. The nominalization suffix -na with the value of indicative complementation functions as a predicative operator of deontic modality and the verbal suffix of the present tense imperative, as a propositional operator of deontic modality.

ARK CAICYT: https://id.caicyt.gov.ar/ark:/s16688090/baszvmehe