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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author Zeisler, Bettina
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description 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).
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spelling ntu-10356/1780722024-06-07T06:12:50Z Narrative conventions in Tibetan languages: the issue of mirativity Zeisler, Bettina Freien Universität Berlin, Institut für Indische Philologie und Kunstgeschichte Arts and Humanities 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). Published version 2024-06-07T06:12:50Z 2024-06-07T06:12:50Z 2000 Journal Article Zeisler, B. (2000). Narrative conventions in Tibetan languages: the issue of mirativity. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 23(2), 39-77. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.23.2.03 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178072 10.32655/LTBA.23.2.03 2 23 39 77 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 2000 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf
spellingShingle Arts and Humanities
Zeisler, Bettina
Narrative conventions in Tibetan languages: the issue of mirativity
title Narrative conventions in Tibetan languages: the issue of mirativity
title_full Narrative conventions in Tibetan languages: the issue of mirativity
title_fullStr Narrative conventions in Tibetan languages: the issue of mirativity
title_full_unstemmed Narrative conventions in Tibetan languages: the issue of mirativity
title_short Narrative conventions in Tibetan languages: the issue of mirativity
title_sort narrative conventions in tibetan languages the issue of mirativity
topic Arts and Humanities
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