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Egophoricity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Typological Studies in Language SeriesPublisher: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (515 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789027265548
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: EgophoricityDDC classification:
  • 415.5
LOC classification:
  • P240.85
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Egophoricity -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1. Egophoricity -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 If you are me, who am I? -- 1.2 Terminology -- 1.3 Core characteristics of egophoric marking -- 2. Variation in morphosyntactic expression -- 2.1 Formal expression -- 2.2 Interaction with other categories -- Volition -- Tense and aspect -- Number and animacy -- Other relevant categories -- 3. Variation in person sensitivity and shiftability -- 3.1 Argument types and semantic roles -- 3.2 Variation in default distribution -- 3.3 Flexibility and extended meanings -- Expressing intentionality -- Certainty, assertiveness, and factuality -- Peripheral involvement -- How to be mean with egophoric markers: Further pragmatic and rhetorical effects -- 3.4 Shiftability -- 4. Areas and families -- 4.1 Tibeto-Burman -- 4.2 Western China -- 4.3 Caucasus -- 4.4 South America -- 4.5 New Guinea -- 4.6 Elsewhere -- 5. The diachrony of egophoricity -- 5.1 Lexical sources -- 5.2 Copulas/auxiliaries -- 5.3 Tense/aspect -- 5.4 Nominalisers -- 5.5 Non-mirative/mirative contrasts -- 5.6 Unmarked/marked evidential contrasts -- 5.7 Pronouns and agreement markers -- 5.8 Articles -- 6. Approaches to egophoricity -- 6.1 Person reference -- 6.2 Evidentiality -- 6.3 Mirativity -- 6.4 Logophoricity -- 7. Closing remarks: A broader view of egophoricity -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2. "Am I blue?" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Finite verbal morphology -- 3. Previous accounts -- 4. Temperature predicates -- 5. Aspectual auxiliary 'dhun-' 'finish' -- 5.1 The egophoric patterning of auxiliary '-dhun' -- 5.2 The causative morpheme '-k(al)-' -- 5.3 Auxiliary '-dhun' 'finish' in two late classical Newar texts -- 5.4 Assessing the late classical evidence -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References.
3. Mirativity and egophoricity in Kurtöp -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Kurtöp -- 2.1 Clauses with copulas -- 2.2 Clauses without copulas -- 2.3 Verbal enclitics -- 3. Mirativity and egophoricity -- 4. Mirativity in Kurtöp -- 4.1 Mirativity as a paradigm -- 4.2 Mirativity in use -- 5. Egophoricity in Kurtöp -- 5.1 '-shang' -- 5.2 '-pala' -- 6. Summary -- References -- 4. Interactions of speaker knowledge and volitionality in Sherpa -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Sherpa system -- 2.1 The Sherpa language &amp -- data collection -- 2.2 Typological properties -- 2.3 Evidentiality in Sherpa -- 3. Earlier analyses of the Sherpa verbal system -- 4. Functions of utterance-final verbal forms in Sherpa -- 4.1 Functions of the evidential 'ĩ' -- 4.2 Functions of 'suŋ' -- 4.3 Functions of 'nok' -- 4.4 Functions of 'wi' -- 4.5 'Suŋ' and 'ĩ' in reported speech and interrogatives -- 5. A closer look at volitionality -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5. Egophoricity and differential access to knowledge in Yongning Na (Mosuo) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Volitional verbs -- 3. Internal state verbs -- 4. Observable state verbs -- 5. Interrogatives -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6. Egophoricity in Wutun -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Wutun language and the Amdo Sprachbund -- 1.2 Typological profile -- 1.3 Verb structure -- 2. The egophoricity system -- 2.1 The basic system -- 2.2 The egophoricity system and reported evidentiality -- 3. Manipulations of the basic system -- 3.1 Ego evidentiality and non-first persons -- 3.2 Sensory-inferential evidentiality and first person -- 3.3 Factual evidentiality in first person statements and question-answer sequences -- 4. Egophoricity in Wutun from diachronic and areal perspective -- 5. Summary and discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7. Egophoricity in Mangghuer.
1. Introduction -- 1.1 Egophoricity in Mangghuer -- 1.2 The basic pattern -- 1.2.1 The basic pattern in declarative sentences -- 1.2.2 The basic pattern in interrogative sentences -- 1.2.3 Systematic differences between Mangghuer (mjg) and Bao'an Tu (peh) -- 1.2.4 Summary of the basic pattern -- 2. Manipulation of the basic pattern -- 2.1 Unexpected uses of objective marking -- 2.1.1 Expressing lack of control -- 2.1.2 Expressing mirativity -- 2.2 Unexpected uses of subjective marking -- 2.2.1 Expressing a strong degree of certainty -- 2.2.2 Expressing an unusual degree of volition or assertion -- 2.2.3 Expressing concern for an interlocutor -- 3. Further complexities -- 3.1 Non-conforming uses that have more than one interpretation -- 3.1.1 Subjective forms indicating either certainty or a prediction -- 3.1.2 Subjective forms indicating either an elicitation of a prediction or an expression of doubt -- 3.1.3 Subjective forms used to assert confidence or echo doubt -- 3.1.4 Objective forms indicating either annoyance or lack of control -- 3.1.5 Objective forms used to answer an implied request or to express annoyance -- 3.2 Non-conforming uses that are pragmatically neutral -- 3.2.1 Subjective forms to indicate that the speaker has privileged access to information -- 3.2.2 Subjective forms acknowledging concern expressed by an interlocutor -- 3.3 A case involving both types of complexity: Implied requests. -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- 8. Morphological innovations in Mangghuer and Shirongolic -- Introduction -- 1. Background -- 1.1 Subjective and objective in Mangghuer -- 1.2 Goals of this study -- 1.3 The Amdo Sprachbund -- 1.4 Mongolic language varieties -- 1.5 Egophoricity in Amdo Tibetan -- 2. Four historical processes -- 2.1 Process 1: The Mongolic terminative suffix is reanalyzed as a perfective direct evidential.
2.1.1 Perfective forms in Tibetanized Shirongolic -- 2.1.2 The source morphemes -- 2.2 Process 2: The subjective vs. objective semantic distinction spreads to all finite declarative environments, indicated by means of an 'i' vs. 'a' vowel distinction -- 2.2.1 Declarative endings and copulas in the Tu languages -- 2.2.2 Possible source morphemes -- 2.2.3 Similar systems in other Amdo Sprachbund languages -- 2.3 Process 3: The durative interrogative suffix is reanalyzed as a marker of objective interrogatives -- 2.3.1 Interrogative endings in Mangghuer and Mongghul -- 2.3.2 The source morpheme -- 2.3.3 Interrogatives in other Amdo Sprachbund languages -- 2.4 Process 4: The narrative suffix is reanalyzed as a marker of objective declaratives -- 2.4.1 Objective marking in Mangghuer -- 2.4.2 The source morpheme -- 2.4.3 The narrative in other Shirongolic languages -- 3. Conclusions and implications -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9. Egophoricity and argument structure in Cha'palaa -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Cha'palaa language -- 2.1 Basic clause types -- 2.2 The Cha'palaa finite clause in natural speech -- 3. Person sensitivity and egophoric distribution -- 3.1 Person sensitivity -- 3.2 Egophoric distribution as a type of person sensitivity -- 4. Basic egophoric morphology in Cha'palaa -- 4.1 Basic egophoric distributional patterns -- 4.2 Egophoricity in reported speech -- 4.3 Egophoric marking and plurality -- 5. Issues of (in)flexibility in egophoric marking -- 5.1 Non-volitional actions -- 5.2 Egophoricity and dubitativity -- 5.3 Egophoricity in speaker questions -- 5.4 Egophoricity and evidentiality -- 6. Egophoricity in experiencer constructions -- 6.1 Emotion constructions -- 6.2 Desiderative constructions -- 6.3 Volitional vs. non-volitional predicates -- 7. Conclusion -- 7.1 Argument structure with egophoricity versus person agreement.
7.2 A synthesis of Cha'palaa's egophoric system -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 10. Egophoricity and evidentiality in Guambiano (Nam Trik) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Egophoric marking, person marking and evidentiality -- 3. Speaker/non-speaker distinctions in Guambiano grammar -- 4. Evidentiality in Guambiano -- 4.1 The evidential status of '-an' -- 5. Ego evidentiality -- 5.1 '-ar' as an ego evidential -- 5.1.1 Some points of divergence and resemblance with egophoric markers in other languages -- 5.2 'Personal affectedness' evidentiality -- 6. Interrogative contexts -- 7. A comparative Barbacoan perspective -- 7.1 Vestigial egophoric contrasts in Guambiano -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 11. The role of sentence type in Ika (Arwako) egophoric marking -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Issues of analysis -- 3. Egophoric marking in Ika -- 4. Gradient speaker expectations in interrogatives -- 5. Sentence type and speaker-stance -- 5.1 The stance triangle -- 5.2 Complex epistemic perspective -- 6. Egophoric marking in Ika as speaker stance: A complex perspective -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 12. The evidential nature of conjunct-disjunct terms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The conjunct-disjunct distinction -- 2.1 Conjunct-disjunct alignment in Newar -- 3. Evidence from Oksapmin: Oksapmin's evidential system and the distribution of the participatory evidential -- 3.1 The Oksapmin language -- 3.2 Participatory versus visual evidentiality -- 3.3 Conjunct-disjunct alignment &amp -- the Oksapmin evidentials -- 3.3.1 Statements -- 3.3.2 Questions -- 3.3.3 Reported statements -- 3.3.4 Conjunct-disjunct alignment and the Oksapmin evidentials: Summary -- 4. Discussion: Conjunct-disjunct as evidential -- 4.1 Visual and non-visual indicating non-volitionality -- 4.2 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References.
13. Egophoric patterns in Duna verbal morphology.
Summary: Egophoricity is the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement. Markers in egophoric systems are sensitive to epistemic authority; since speakers generally know most about their own affairs, egophoric marking typically associates with first person statements.
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Intro -- Egophoricity -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1. Egophoricity -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 If you are me, who am I? -- 1.2 Terminology -- 1.3 Core characteristics of egophoric marking -- 2. Variation in morphosyntactic expression -- 2.1 Formal expression -- 2.2 Interaction with other categories -- Volition -- Tense and aspect -- Number and animacy -- Other relevant categories -- 3. Variation in person sensitivity and shiftability -- 3.1 Argument types and semantic roles -- 3.2 Variation in default distribution -- 3.3 Flexibility and extended meanings -- Expressing intentionality -- Certainty, assertiveness, and factuality -- Peripheral involvement -- How to be mean with egophoric markers: Further pragmatic and rhetorical effects -- 3.4 Shiftability -- 4. Areas and families -- 4.1 Tibeto-Burman -- 4.2 Western China -- 4.3 Caucasus -- 4.4 South America -- 4.5 New Guinea -- 4.6 Elsewhere -- 5. The diachrony of egophoricity -- 5.1 Lexical sources -- 5.2 Copulas/auxiliaries -- 5.3 Tense/aspect -- 5.4 Nominalisers -- 5.5 Non-mirative/mirative contrasts -- 5.6 Unmarked/marked evidential contrasts -- 5.7 Pronouns and agreement markers -- 5.8 Articles -- 6. Approaches to egophoricity -- 6.1 Person reference -- 6.2 Evidentiality -- 6.3 Mirativity -- 6.4 Logophoricity -- 7. Closing remarks: A broader view of egophoricity -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2. "Am I blue?" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Finite verbal morphology -- 3. Previous accounts -- 4. Temperature predicates -- 5. Aspectual auxiliary 'dhun-' 'finish' -- 5.1 The egophoric patterning of auxiliary '-dhun' -- 5.2 The causative morpheme '-k(al)-' -- 5.3 Auxiliary '-dhun' 'finish' in two late classical Newar texts -- 5.4 Assessing the late classical evidence -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References.

3. Mirativity and egophoricity in Kurtöp -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Kurtöp -- 2.1 Clauses with copulas -- 2.2 Clauses without copulas -- 2.3 Verbal enclitics -- 3. Mirativity and egophoricity -- 4. Mirativity in Kurtöp -- 4.1 Mirativity as a paradigm -- 4.2 Mirativity in use -- 5. Egophoricity in Kurtöp -- 5.1 '-shang' -- 5.2 '-pala' -- 6. Summary -- References -- 4. Interactions of speaker knowledge and volitionality in Sherpa -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Sherpa system -- 2.1 The Sherpa language &amp -- data collection -- 2.2 Typological properties -- 2.3 Evidentiality in Sherpa -- 3. Earlier analyses of the Sherpa verbal system -- 4. Functions of utterance-final verbal forms in Sherpa -- 4.1 Functions of the evidential 'ĩ' -- 4.2 Functions of 'suŋ' -- 4.3 Functions of 'nok' -- 4.4 Functions of 'wi' -- 4.5 'Suŋ' and 'ĩ' in reported speech and interrogatives -- 5. A closer look at volitionality -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5. Egophoricity and differential access to knowledge in Yongning Na (Mosuo) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Volitional verbs -- 3. Internal state verbs -- 4. Observable state verbs -- 5. Interrogatives -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6. Egophoricity in Wutun -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Wutun language and the Amdo Sprachbund -- 1.2 Typological profile -- 1.3 Verb structure -- 2. The egophoricity system -- 2.1 The basic system -- 2.2 The egophoricity system and reported evidentiality -- 3. Manipulations of the basic system -- 3.1 Ego evidentiality and non-first persons -- 3.2 Sensory-inferential evidentiality and first person -- 3.3 Factual evidentiality in first person statements and question-answer sequences -- 4. Egophoricity in Wutun from diachronic and areal perspective -- 5. Summary and discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7. Egophoricity in Mangghuer.

1. Introduction -- 1.1 Egophoricity in Mangghuer -- 1.2 The basic pattern -- 1.2.1 The basic pattern in declarative sentences -- 1.2.2 The basic pattern in interrogative sentences -- 1.2.3 Systematic differences between Mangghuer (mjg) and Bao'an Tu (peh) -- 1.2.4 Summary of the basic pattern -- 2. Manipulation of the basic pattern -- 2.1 Unexpected uses of objective marking -- 2.1.1 Expressing lack of control -- 2.1.2 Expressing mirativity -- 2.2 Unexpected uses of subjective marking -- 2.2.1 Expressing a strong degree of certainty -- 2.2.2 Expressing an unusual degree of volition or assertion -- 2.2.3 Expressing concern for an interlocutor -- 3. Further complexities -- 3.1 Non-conforming uses that have more than one interpretation -- 3.1.1 Subjective forms indicating either certainty or a prediction -- 3.1.2 Subjective forms indicating either an elicitation of a prediction or an expression of doubt -- 3.1.3 Subjective forms used to assert confidence or echo doubt -- 3.1.4 Objective forms indicating either annoyance or lack of control -- 3.1.5 Objective forms used to answer an implied request or to express annoyance -- 3.2 Non-conforming uses that are pragmatically neutral -- 3.2.1 Subjective forms to indicate that the speaker has privileged access to information -- 3.2.2 Subjective forms acknowledging concern expressed by an interlocutor -- 3.3 A case involving both types of complexity: Implied requests. -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- 8. Morphological innovations in Mangghuer and Shirongolic -- Introduction -- 1. Background -- 1.1 Subjective and objective in Mangghuer -- 1.2 Goals of this study -- 1.3 The Amdo Sprachbund -- 1.4 Mongolic language varieties -- 1.5 Egophoricity in Amdo Tibetan -- 2. Four historical processes -- 2.1 Process 1: The Mongolic terminative suffix is reanalyzed as a perfective direct evidential.

2.1.1 Perfective forms in Tibetanized Shirongolic -- 2.1.2 The source morphemes -- 2.2 Process 2: The subjective vs. objective semantic distinction spreads to all finite declarative environments, indicated by means of an 'i' vs. 'a' vowel distinction -- 2.2.1 Declarative endings and copulas in the Tu languages -- 2.2.2 Possible source morphemes -- 2.2.3 Similar systems in other Amdo Sprachbund languages -- 2.3 Process 3: The durative interrogative suffix is reanalyzed as a marker of objective interrogatives -- 2.3.1 Interrogative endings in Mangghuer and Mongghul -- 2.3.2 The source morpheme -- 2.3.3 Interrogatives in other Amdo Sprachbund languages -- 2.4 Process 4: The narrative suffix is reanalyzed as a marker of objective declaratives -- 2.4.1 Objective marking in Mangghuer -- 2.4.2 The source morpheme -- 2.4.3 The narrative in other Shirongolic languages -- 3. Conclusions and implications -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9. Egophoricity and argument structure in Cha'palaa -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Cha'palaa language -- 2.1 Basic clause types -- 2.2 The Cha'palaa finite clause in natural speech -- 3. Person sensitivity and egophoric distribution -- 3.1 Person sensitivity -- 3.2 Egophoric distribution as a type of person sensitivity -- 4. Basic egophoric morphology in Cha'palaa -- 4.1 Basic egophoric distributional patterns -- 4.2 Egophoricity in reported speech -- 4.3 Egophoric marking and plurality -- 5. Issues of (in)flexibility in egophoric marking -- 5.1 Non-volitional actions -- 5.2 Egophoricity and dubitativity -- 5.3 Egophoricity in speaker questions -- 5.4 Egophoricity and evidentiality -- 6. Egophoricity in experiencer constructions -- 6.1 Emotion constructions -- 6.2 Desiderative constructions -- 6.3 Volitional vs. non-volitional predicates -- 7. Conclusion -- 7.1 Argument structure with egophoricity versus person agreement.

7.2 A synthesis of Cha'palaa's egophoric system -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 10. Egophoricity and evidentiality in Guambiano (Nam Trik) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Egophoric marking, person marking and evidentiality -- 3. Speaker/non-speaker distinctions in Guambiano grammar -- 4. Evidentiality in Guambiano -- 4.1 The evidential status of '-an' -- 5. Ego evidentiality -- 5.1 '-ar' as an ego evidential -- 5.1.1 Some points of divergence and resemblance with egophoric markers in other languages -- 5.2 'Personal affectedness' evidentiality -- 6. Interrogative contexts -- 7. A comparative Barbacoan perspective -- 7.1 Vestigial egophoric contrasts in Guambiano -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 11. The role of sentence type in Ika (Arwako) egophoric marking -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Issues of analysis -- 3. Egophoric marking in Ika -- 4. Gradient speaker expectations in interrogatives -- 5. Sentence type and speaker-stance -- 5.1 The stance triangle -- 5.2 Complex epistemic perspective -- 6. Egophoric marking in Ika as speaker stance: A complex perspective -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 12. The evidential nature of conjunct-disjunct terms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The conjunct-disjunct distinction -- 2.1 Conjunct-disjunct alignment in Newar -- 3. Evidence from Oksapmin: Oksapmin's evidential system and the distribution of the participatory evidential -- 3.1 The Oksapmin language -- 3.2 Participatory versus visual evidentiality -- 3.3 Conjunct-disjunct alignment &amp -- the Oksapmin evidentials -- 3.3.1 Statements -- 3.3.2 Questions -- 3.3.3 Reported statements -- 3.3.4 Conjunct-disjunct alignment and the Oksapmin evidentials: Summary -- 4. Discussion: Conjunct-disjunct as evidential -- 4.1 Visual and non-visual indicating non-volitionality -- 4.2 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References.

13. Egophoric patterns in Duna verbal morphology.

Egophoricity is the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement. Markers in egophoric systems are sensitive to epistemic authority; since speakers generally know most about their own affairs, egophoric marking typically associates with first person statements.

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