Evidentiality and mirativity in Magar
The goals of this paper are two-fold: first, to describe evidentiality and mirativity in Magar, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal; second, to bring this data to bear on relationships between evidentiality, mirativity and epistemic modalities. In most earlier scholarship evidentiality has bee...
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| author | Grunow-Hårsta, Karen |
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| description | The goals of this paper are two-fold: first, to describe evidentiality
and mirativity in Magar, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal;
second, to bring this data to bear on relationships between
evidentiality, mirativity and epistemic modalities. In most earlier
scholarship evidentiality has been subsumed under the category
‘epistemic modality’ and as such has been understood to express the
speaker’s commitment to the veridical force of an utterance.
However, recently, scholars such as Aikhenvald (2003, 2004)
present evidentiality as an independent grammatical category, the
core function of which is to encode source of information. Likewise,
mirativity, which is defined by DeLancey (1997, 2001) as the
marking of new and unexpected information, also merits
classification as an independent category. The analysis of mirativity
and evidentiality in Magar across dialects (Syangja and Tanahu)
supports the classification of evidentiality and mirativity as
categories in their own right. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1779182024-06-06T05:48:11Z Evidentiality and mirativity in Magar Grunow-Hårsta, Karen University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Arts and Humanities Epistemic Evidentiality The goals of this paper are two-fold: first, to describe evidentiality and mirativity in Magar, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal; second, to bring this data to bear on relationships between evidentiality, mirativity and epistemic modalities. In most earlier scholarship evidentiality has been subsumed under the category ‘epistemic modality’ and as such has been understood to express the speaker’s commitment to the veridical force of an utterance. However, recently, scholars such as Aikhenvald (2003, 2004) present evidentiality as an independent grammatical category, the core function of which is to encode source of information. Likewise, mirativity, which is defined by DeLancey (1997, 2001) as the marking of new and unexpected information, also merits classification as an independent category. The analysis of mirativity and evidentiality in Magar across dialects (Syangja and Tanahu) supports the classification of evidentiality and mirativity as categories in their own right. Published version 2024-06-06T05:48:11Z 2024-06-06T05:48:11Z 2007 Journal Article Grunow-Hårsta, K. (2007). Evidentiality and mirativity in Magar. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 30(2), 151-194. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.30.2.06 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177918 10.32655/LTBA.30.2.06 2 30 151 194 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 2007 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Arts and Humanities Epistemic Evidentiality Grunow-Hårsta, Karen Evidentiality and mirativity in Magar |
| title | Evidentiality and mirativity in Magar |
| title_full | Evidentiality and mirativity in Magar |
| title_fullStr | Evidentiality and mirativity in Magar |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evidentiality and mirativity in Magar |
| title_short | Evidentiality and mirativity in Magar |
| title_sort | evidentiality and mirativity in magar |
| topic | Arts and Humanities Epistemic Evidentiality |
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