Tensed evidentials : a typological study
Visser, Eline LU
(2015)
In Linguistic Typology
19(2).
p.279-325
- Abstract
- To gain more insight into evidentiality, the grammatical marking of information source, it is worth studying the category in its relation to other grammatical categories. This study explores tensed evidentials, morphemes in which tense and evidentiality are fused, in 36 languages from four macro-areas (North America, South America, Eurasia, and Papunesia). The study reveals several interactions between tense values and evidential values. As opposed to what has been claimed, firsthand future evidentials seem to exist. Visual and non-visual evidentials occur equally with present and past, whereas mental activity evidentials and reportative evidentials are much more limited to the past. These findings conform to the logic of tense: every type... (More)
- To gain more insight into evidentiality, the grammatical marking of information source, it is worth studying the category in its relation to other grammatical categories. This study explores tensed evidentials, morphemes in which tense and evidentiality are fused, in 36 languages from four macro-areas (North America, South America, Eurasia, and Papunesia). The study reveals several interactions between tense values and evidential values. As opposed to what has been claimed, firsthand future evidentials seem to exist. Visual and non-visual evidentials occur equally with present and past, whereas mental activity evidentials and reportative evidentials are much more limited to the past. These findings conform to the logic of tense: every type of evidentiality can be gathered in the past, whereas some are less suited for present or future. As a result, we find exceptionless implicational hierarchies of the form future ⊃ present ⊃ past for several evidential values. (Less)
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- Visser, Eline
LU
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- publishing date
- 2015
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- evidential, grammatical category, inflection, information status, tense
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- Linguistic Typology
- volume
- 19
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 47 pages
- publisher
- De Gruyter
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- scopus:84943752110
- ISSN
- 1430-0532
- DOI
- 10.1515/lingty-2015-0009
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- English
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