Towards a new approach to evidentiality: Issues and directions for research

N Tournadre, RJ LaPolla - Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area, 2014 - jbe-platform.com
Evidentiality is often defined as the grammatical means of expressing information source.
This paper argues for a broader definition of evidentials, as close work documenting …

The pragmatic differences between grammatical and lexical evidentiality: A corpus-based study of Tibetan and English

E Mélac - Journal of Pragmatics, 2023 - Elsevier
The paper examines to what extent expressing information sources with a fully
grammaticalized evidential system or with lexical means may have a different pragmatic …

Evidentiality as a grammaticalization passenger: An investigation of evidential developments in Tibetic languages and beyond

E Mélac, J Bialek - Studies in Language, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
This article investigates the grammaticalization patterns of evidentiality from a cross-
linguistic perspective with a focus on Lhasa Tibetan. It documents the history of the …

The paradigmaticity of evidentials in the Tibetic languages of Khams

D Drolma, H Suzuki - Studies in Language, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
This article argues that the evidential system of Khams Tibetan, a cluster of Tibetic
languages spoken in the south-eastern Tibetosphere, should be considered a verb …

The contribution of Tibetan languages to the study of evidentiality

NW Hill, L Gawne - Evidential systems of Tibetan languages, 2017 - degruyter.com
In his Aṣṭādhyāyī the great Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini cryptically notes the grammatical
encoding of information source with the words parokṣe liṭ 'one uses the perfect tense in …

Functional transition from hear to nonvisual sensory and hearsay evidential categories: A case study of rGyalthang Tibetan

H Suzuki - Functions of Language, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
This article presents a development of evidential categories derived from a verb related to
the auditory sense in the evidential system attested in rGyalthang Tibetan varieties. The …

A typological sketch of evidential/epistemic categories in the Tibetic languages

N Tournadre - Evidential systems of Tibetan languages, 2017 - degruyter.com
This chapter provides a typological overview of evidential categories found in the Tibetic
languages. The most complex evidential systems are attested in three regions of the world …

L'évidentialité en anglais-approche contrastive à partir d'un corpus anglais-tibétain

E Mélac - 2014 - theses.hal.science
Cette étude vise à fournir une description détaillée de l'évidentialité en anglais dans une
approche contrastive avec le tibétain. Elle repose sur un corpus spécialement recueilli au …

Evidence for the development of 'evidentiality'as a grammatical category in the Tibetic languages

B Zeisler - Empirical evidence for evidentiality, 2018 - torrossa.com
The coding of evidentiality and/or the speaker's attitude grammaticalized in most Modern
Tibetic languages, whereas Classical Tibetan lacks a fully developed evidential system. The …

Copular constructions in syntax

M den Dikken, T O'Neill - Oxford research encyclopedia of linguistics, 2017 - oxfordre.com
Copular sentences (sentences of the form A is B) have been prominent on the research
agenda for linguists and philosophers of language since classical antiquity, and continue to …