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Evidentials in Ryukyuan : the Shuri variety of Luchuan : a typological and theoretical study of grammatical evidentiality / by Tomoko Arakaki.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arakaki, Tomoko.
- Series:
- Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 4.
- Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ryukyuan language--Grammar.
- Ryukyuan language.
- Ryukyuan language--Dialects.
- Ryukyuan language--Grammar, Comparative--Japanese.
- Ryukyuan language--Terms and phrases.
- Japanese language--Dialects--History.
- Japanese language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Evidentiality, the linguistic category which marks the source of the speaker’s information, has often been overlooked in studies of Luchuan (Ryukyuan), the only sister language of Japanese. In this book, Arakaki provides the first comprehensive analysis of Luchuan evidentials. She proposes that Luchuan has a grammatical evidential system which contains one Direct evidential and three indirect evidentials (Inference, Assumed, and Reportative). The discussion includes cross-linguistic issues such as how evidentiality is related to epistemic modality, with the intention that this work should constitute a contribution to the typological and theoretical study of evidentiality. This work will open new horizons for the study of evidentiality.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Direct Evidential
- 3 Inferential and Assumed Evidentials
- 4 The Reportative Evidential
- 5 Evidentiality as a Grammatical Category
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Revised edition of the author's Ph.D thesis from University of Edinburgh, 2011; titled Evidentials in the Shuri Dialect of Luchuan (Ryukyuan), published under the name Tomoko Arakaki Shimabukuro.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004253407
- 9004253408
- OCLC:
- 852758585
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004253407 DOI
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