This article presents a large set of data concerning Mapudungun expressions of desire. It throws light on two phenomena: the language’s bouletic transparency and its alternative means to convey future orientation. The former is related to the cross-linguistic tendency to mark want predicates with counterfactual morphology and express, by these means, either wish or would want statements. It will be shown that Mapudungun follows this cross-linguistic pattern in a quite systematic way. As for the second issue, I will defend the view that Mapudungun is a language that possesses both morphosemantically independent and lexically inherent mechanisms to prospectively displace the time of occurrence of the desired event with respect to the time at which the subject’s preferences are evaluated.

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Mapudungun 欲望的表达

本文提供了大量关于 Mapudungun 欲望表达的数据。它揭示了两种现象：语言的透明性及其传达未来方向的替代方法。前者与用反事实形态标记想要的谓词并通过这些方式表达希望或想要的陈述的跨语言倾向有关。将表明 Mapudungun 以一种非常系统的方式遵循这种跨语言模式。至于第二个问题，我将捍卫这样一种观点，即 Mapudungun 是一种语言，它既具有形态语义独立又具有词汇固有机制，可以前瞻性地将期望事件的发生时间相对于评估主体偏好的时间进行替换。