Evidential Systems of Tibetan Languages Lauren Gawne

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3110460181
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3110460186
• Author(s): Lauren Gawne, Nathan W. Hill

This edited volume brings together work on the evidential systems of
Tibetan languages. This includes diachronic research, synchronic
description of systems in individual Tibetan varieties and papers
addressing broader theoretical or typological questions. Evidentiality in
Tibetan languages interacts with other features of modality,
interactional context and speaker knowledge states in ways that provide
important perspectives for typologists and our general understanding of
evidential systems. This book provides the first sustained attempt to
capture this complexity and diversity from both a synchronic and
diachronic perspective.

Table contents:

1 The contribution of Tibetan languages to the study of evidentiality
Typology and history
2 Evidentiality of the Tibetan verb snang
3 Egophoric evidentiality in Bodish languages
4 A typological sketch of evidential/epistemic categories in the Tibetic languages
5 Perfect experiential constructions: the inferential semantics of direct evidence
6 On the origin of the Lhasa Tibetan evidentials song and byung
Lhasa and Diasporic Tibetan
7 Lhasa Tibetan predicates
8 Inference and deferred evidence in Tibetan
Other Tibetan languages
9 Evidentiality in Purik Tibetan
10 Copulas in Denjongke or Sikkimese Bhutia
11 An overview of some epistemic categories in Dzongkha
12 Observations on factors affecting the distributional properties of evidential markers in Amdo Tibetan
13 The evidential system of Zhollam Tibetan
14 Evidentials in Pingwu Baima
Index

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