Negative irrealis clauses in Malay/Indonesian and Sri Lankan Malay infinitives
This article concerns establishing a plausible connection between the word jang(an) in colloquial Malay varieties and jang-, a form which negates infinitives, in the diasporic contact variety Sri Lankan Malay. The principal claim is that jang(an) marks irrealis modality in Southeast Asian Malay vari...
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| Language: | English |
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Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities
2021-04-01
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| Series: | Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia |
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| Online Access: | https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol22/iss1/2/ |