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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452927403321

Autore

Arakaki Tomoko

Titolo

Evidentials in Ryukyuan [[electronic resource] ] : the Shuri variety of Luchuan : a typological and theoretical study of grammatical evidentiality / / by Tomoko Arakaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013

ISBN

90-04-25340-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture ; ; vol. 4

Disciplina

495.6

Soggetti

Japanese language - Dialects - History

Ryukyuan language - Dialects

Ryukyuan language - Grammar, Comparative - Japanese

Ryukyuan language - Grammar

Ryukyuan language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.