Abe Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 8958438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abe Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abe |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Applying popular arguments for and against an independent egophoric grammatical category to Thewo Tibetan
Thewo Tibetan’s egophoric markers are restricted to volitional acts the speaker has done, is doing, and will do. This is unique amongst the reported Tibetan speech varieties given that usually first, second, and third person speech act participants (SAPs) can all use egophoric markers assuming they appear in the right communicative situation. As such, Thewo Tibetan provides a unique dataset to explore the relationship between egophoricity and evi…
Thewo Tibetan’s /ta33/ and /nə33
This paper has three aims. First, in its form, this paper uses a narrative style to overtly highlight the iterative process used to identify the meaning of the two suffixes in question. Second, this paper seeks to describe the intricate workings of two verbal suffixes in Thewo Tibetan. Finally, this paper makes a defense of why these two suffixes belong to the category of evidentiality. Thewo Tibetan is spoken in China on the Gansu-Sichuan border…
Mapping the Spatial Relationship Between Sub-basins and Language Variation in Thewo Tibetan
Thewo Tibetan is a Tibetic language of China spoken along the Bailong River in Northern Sichuan Province and Southern Gansu Province. Although typically listed as a dialect of Choni Tibetan (ISO 639-3 cda), Thewo is reported to have a high degree of internal variation (Renzengwangmu 2013). The goal of this paper is to examine whether or not this internal variation can be explained in part by Chamberlain’s (2015) hypothesis of linguistic watershed…
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Mapping the Spatial Relationship Between Sub-basins and Language Variation in Thewo Tibetan
Thewo Tibetan is a Tibetic language of China spoken along the Bailong River in Northern Sichuan Province and Southern Gansu Province. Although typically listed as a dialect of Choni Tibetan (ISO 639-3 cda), Thewo is reported to have a high degree of internal variation (Renzengwangmu 2013). The goal of this paper is to examine whether or not this internal variation can be explained in part by Chamberlain’s (2015) hypothesis of linguistic watershed…
Thewo Tibetan’s /ta33/ and /nə33
This paper has three aims. First, in its form, this paper uses a narrative style to overtly highlight the iterative process used to identify the meaning of the two suffixes in question. Second, this paper seeks to describe the intricate workings of two verbal suffixes in Thewo Tibetan. Finally, this paper makes a defense of why these two suffixes belong to the category of evidentiality. Thewo Tibetan is spoken in China on the Gansu-Sichuan border…
Applying popular arguments for and against an independent egophoric grammatical category to Thewo Tibetan
Thewo Tibetan’s egophoric markers are restricted to volitional acts the speaker has done, is doing, and will do. This is unique amongst the reported Tibetan speech varieties given that usually first, second, and third person speech act participants (SAPs) can all use egophoric markers assuming they appear in the right communicative situation. As such, Thewo Tibetan provides a unique dataset to explore the relationship between egophoricity and evi…
Evidentiality (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · Anecdote (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · China (1 work) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Discourse marker (1 work) · Geography (1 work)