Evidential Systems of Tibetan Languages 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783110471878, 3110471876

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• ISBN-10: 3110471876
• ISBN-13: 9783110471878
• Author: De Gruyter Mouton
  

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

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