TY  - JOUR
A1  - Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.
A1  - LaPolla, Randy J.
T1  - New perspectives on evidentials : a view from Tibeto-Burman
T2  - Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area
N2  - Evidentiality is a grammatical category which has source of information as its primary meaning — whether the narrator actually saw what is being described, or made inferences about it based on some evidence, or was told about it, and so on. Evidentials are a particularly salient feature of Tibeto-Burman languages. This volume features in-depth studies of evidentiality systems in six languages: Rgyalthang, a Kham Tibetan dialect, by Krisadawan Hongladarom; Yongning Na (Naxi group; believed to be closely related to Lolo-Burmese), by Liberty Lidz; Darma (Almora branch of Western Himalayish), by Christina Willis; nDrapa (Qiangic), by Satoko Shirai; Magar (Himalayish), by Karen Grunow-Hårsta, and Tabo (or Spiti), a Tibetan dialect, by Veronika Hein. Each opens new perspectives on the composition and the semantics of evidential systems, on the marking of more than one information source in one sentence, and on the grammaticalized expression of mirativity.
The new insights on evidentiality and related issues from the Tibeto-Burman area are crucial for understanding evidentials in a cross-linguistic perspective.
KW  - Evidentialität
KW  - Tibetobirmanische Sprachen
Y1  - 2007
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37877
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-378775
UR  - http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/randylapolla/papers/Aikhenvald_and_LaPolla_2007_New_perspectives_on_evidentials_-_a_view_from_Tibeto-Burman.pdf
SN  - 0731-3500
VL  - 30
IS  - 2
SP  - 1
EP  - 16
PB  - Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -