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New perspectives on evidentials : a view from Tibeto-Burman

  • 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.
Metadaten
Author:Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-378775
URL:http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/randylapolla/papers/Aikhenvald_and_LaPolla_2007_New_perspectives_on_evidentials_-_a_view_from_Tibeto-Burman.pdf
ISSN:0731-3500
Parent Title (English):Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area
Publisher:Benjamins
Place of publication:Amsterdam
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2007
Year of first Publication:2007
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2015/07/21
GND Keyword:Evidentialität; Tibetobirmanische Sprachen
Volume:30
Issue:2
Page Number:16
First Page:1
Last Page:16
HeBIS-PPN:369820045
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 49 Andere Sprachen / 490 Andere Sprachen
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtypologie / Language typology
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Kontrastive Linguistik / Contrastive linguistics
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht