The Structure of Evidential Categories in Wanka Quechua

The Structure of Evidential Categories in Wanka Quechua
Author: Rick Floyd
Publisher: Sil International, Global Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1999
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

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Provides a detailed look at the semantics of the evidential system of one Quechua language with implications for others.

Evidentiality in Interaction

Evidentiality in Interaction
Author: Janis Nuckolls
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2014-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027270015

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In recent decades, linguists have significantly advanced our understanding of the grammatical properties of evidentials, but their social and interactional properties and uses have received less attention. This volume, originally published as a special issue of Pragmatics and Society (issue 3:2, 2012), draws together complementary perspectives on the social and interactional life of evidentiality, drawing on data from diverse languages, including Albanian, English, Garrwa (Pama-Nyungan, Australia), Huamalíes Quechua (Quechuan, Peru), Nanti (Arawak, Peru), and Pastaza Quichua (Quechuan, Ecuador). The language-specific studies in this volume are all based on the close analysis of discourse or communicative interaction, and examine both evidential systems of varying degrees of grammaticalization and 'evidential strategies' present in languages without grammaticalized evidentials. The analyses presented draw on conversational analysis, ethnography of communication, ethnopoetics, pragmatics, and theories of deixis and indexicality, and will be of interest to students of evidentiality in a variety of analytical traditions.

The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality

The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 929
Release: 2018-01-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191077402

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This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. In some languages, the speaker always has to specify this source - for example whether they saw the event, heard it, inferred it based on visual evidence or common sense, or was told about it by someone else. While not all languages have obligatory marking of this type, every language has ways of referring to information source and associated epistemological meanings. The continuum of epistemological expressions covers a range of devices from the lexical means in familiar European languages and in many languages of Aboriginal Australia to the highly grammaticalized systems in Amazonia or North America. In this handbook, experts from a variety of fields explore topics such as the relationship between evidentials and epistemic modality, contact-induced changes in evidential systems, the acquisition of evidentials, and formal semantic theories of evidentiality. The book also contains detailed case studies of evidentiality in language families across the world, including Algonquian, Korean, Nakh-Dagestanian, Nambikwara, Turkic, Uralic, and Uto-Aztecan.

Evidentials and Modals

Evidentials and Modals
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004436707

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Evidentials and Modals offers an in-depth account of the meaning of grammatical elements related to evidentiality and modality, focusing on both theoretical and typological perspectives, ranging from Korean, Japanese, American Indian, Turkish and African languages.

Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities

Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities
Author: Miriam Meyerhoff
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2008-09-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902729075X

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This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.

The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus

The Morphology and Syntax of Topic and Focus
Author: Liliana Sánchez
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027255520

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This book presents an innovative analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua. It provides a minimalist account of the relationship between focus, topic, evidentiality and other left-peripheral features and sentence-internal constituents marked with suffixes that have been previously considered of a pragmatic nature. Intervention effects show that these relationships are also of a syntactic nature. The analysis is extended to morphological markers that appear on polarity sensitive items and wh-words. The book also provides a brief overview of the main characteristics of Quechua syntax as well as additional bibliographical information.

Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality

Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality
Author: Dalila Ayoun
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2018-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027263906

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After an introductory chapter that provides an overview to theoretical issues in tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality, this volume presents a variety of original contributions that are firmly empirically-grounded based on elicited or corpus data, while adopting different theoretical frameworks. Thus, some chapters rely on large diachronic corpora and provide new qualitative insight on the evolution of TAM systems through quantitative methods, while others carry out a collostructional analysis of past-tensed verbs using inferential statistics to explore the lexical grammar of verbs. A common goal is to uncover semantic regularities and variation in the TAM systems of the languages under study by taking a close look at context. Such a fine-grained approach contributes to our understanding of the TAM systems from a typological perspective. The focus on well-known Indo-European languages (e.g. French, German, English, Spanish) and also on less commonly studied languages (e.g. Hungarian, Estonian, Avar, Andi, Tagalog) provides a valuable cross-linguistic perspective.

Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance

Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance
Author: Ilana Mushin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781588110336

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This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling. The patterns of evidential use (and non-use) found in these languages are attributed to contextual, cultural and grammatical factors that motivate the adoption of an 'epistemological stance' - a concept that owes much to recent trends in Cognitive Linguistics. The patterns of evidential strategies found in the three languages provide a fine illustration of the balancing act between speakers' expressions of their own subjectivity, their motivations to tell a coherent and exciting story, and their motivations to be faithful retellers of someone elses' story. These pressures are further complicated by the grammatical and pragmatic conventions that are particular to each language. Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: narrative retelling will appeal to those interested in evidentiality, grammar and pragmatics, cross-linguistics discourse analysis, linguistic subjectivity and narrative.