Evidential Types

Evidence from Cree Dialects

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4559345
AutoresEleanor M Blain (Brandon University), Rose‐marie Déchaine (Brandon University)
Año2007
Volumen73
Número3
Páginas257-291
Fecha de publicación2007-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/521728
OpenAlexW2053762382
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas55
Referencias citadas18

Evidentials, which introduce the speaker's perspective regarding information being presented, can be divided into at least two classes in Cree: CP‐external (with illocutionary force) and IP‐external (with temporal or modal force). Cree dialects differ in their deployment of evidentials. CP‐external evidentials include quotative verbs (attested in all Cree dialects) and reportative particles (in Plains Cree). IP‐external evidentials include dubitative particles (in Plains Cree) as well as affixal indirect evidentials that are temporally conditioned (in Cree/Montagnais/Naskapi). The proposed analysis of evidential types in Cree dialects lends support to the Evidential Domain Hypothesis (Blain and Déchaine 2006) that claims that evidentials differ from each other according to the syntactic domain in which they are introduced

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