Narrative conventions in Tibetan languages: the issue of mirativity

In quite a few languages, not only the order of events and their localization in time, the manner and phases of realization, or their quantity and quality are lexically or grammatically encoded. Additionally, information may be encoded about a) the means by which the knowledge of the event described...

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Main Author: Zeisler, Bettina
Other Authors: Freien Universität Berlin, Institut für Indische Philologie und Kunstgeschichte
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178072
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Summary:In quite a few languages, not only the order of events and their localization in time, the manner and phases of realization, or their quantity and quality are lexically or grammatically encoded. Additionally, information may be encoded about a) the means by which the knowledge of the event described was acquired by the speaker (evidentiality), and b) the status of this knowledge as old and assimilated vs. new and unexpected (mirativity). In the past fifteen years, both phenomena have been addressed in several papers (see DeLancey 1997 for references).