A Typological Study of Evidentiality in Qiangic Languages / Junwei BAI.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bai, Junwei, author.

Series:

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences ;

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2022

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evidentials (Linguistics).

Sino-Tibetan languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As an intriguing but little understood language group within the Tibeto-Burman family, Qiangic languages are widely reported to have evidentiality, the grammatical means of expressing information source. How does this category function in this language group? Does it show any common features across these languages? And does it have any unique properties? Drawing on data from over a dozen languages and dialects, and cast within an informative typological framework, this study is the first attempt to answer these questions. It is found that evidentiality in Qiangic languages can be classified into three broad types. The study further demonstrates that modern systems cannot be inherited from Proto-Qiangic, and it also reveals certain features of the reported evidential that seem to be typologically rare.

Contents:

Preliminary Material/ Junwei Bai

Copyright page/ Junwei Bai/ Junwei Bai

A Typological Study of Evidentiality in Qiangic Languages/ Junwei Bai

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Bai, Junwei A Typological Study of Evidentiality in Qiangic Languages

ISBN:

9789004526280

OCLC:

1347024823

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004526280 DOI