Evidentials in Ryukyuan: the Shuri Variety of Luchuan: A Typological and Theoretical Study of Grammatical EvidentialityEvidentiality, the linguistic category which marks the source of the speaker’s information, has often been overlooked in studies of Luchuan (Ryukyuan), the only sister language of Japanese. In this book, Arakaki provides the first comprehensive analysis of Luchuan evidentials. She proposes that Luchuan has a grammatical evidential system which contains one Direct evidential and three indirect evidentials (Inference, Assumed, and Reportative). The discussion includes cross-linguistic issues such as how evidentiality is related to epistemic modality, with the intention that this work should constitute a contribution to the typological and theoretical study of evidentiality. This work will open new horizons for the study of evidentiality. |
Contents
Chapter One Introduction | 1 |
Chapter Two The Direct Evidential | 31 |
Chapter Three Inferential and Assumed Evidentials | 77 |
Chapter Four The Reportative Evidential | 123 |
Chapter Five Evidentiality as a Grammatical Category | 151 |
Chapter Six Conclusion | 167 |
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Common terms and phrases
addressee aikhenvald 2004 appear Assumed evidential hazi best possible ground category of evidentiality Chapter claim co-occur consider Context continuative aspect cooked dinner Cuzco Quechua degree of certainty dential direct evidence direct evidential discussed encodes epistemic modality event eviden evidential meaning evidential n evidential system evidentials in Luchuan express Faller grammatical category he/she homophony imperfective aspect indicates inference based Inferential evidential tee inferential meaning interrogative sentences irrealis Izvorski Japanese juuban Ken NM Kudō Miki Miyara mood marker ee Moore's paradox morpheme morphological analysis negation negative sentences Nkai non-past okinawa Okinawan Language past tense proposition question marker rain reportative evidential ndi reportative ndi resultative aspect Ryukyuan languages sensory evidence sentence final particle Shinzato Shuri Shuri variety slot someone source of information Speaker has direct Speaker heard Speaker infers speaker of example speaker’s degree tial tion tsuhako Uemura usage utterance verb visual evidence Yonaguni