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Egophoricity /

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. However, in questions...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Floyd, Simeon (Editor ), Norcliffe, Elisabeth (Editor ), San Roque, Lila (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Colección:Typological studies in language ; v. 118.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 factualityPeripheral 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 Evidentiality6.3 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 copulas2.2 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 & 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