Evidentiality and mirativity in Magar

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ID5827670
AuthorsKaren Grunow‐hårsta (corresponding author), Karen Grunow-Hårsta
Year2007
Volume30
Issue2
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0731-3500 • E-ISSN: 2214-5907
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.32655/ltba.30.2.06
OpenAlexW2270367908
LanguageEN
Citations received50

The goals of this paper are two-fold: first, to describe evidentiality and mirativity in Magar, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal; second, to bring this data to bear on relationships between evidentiality, mirativity and epistemic modalities. In most earlier scholarship evidentiality has been subsumed under the category 'epistemic modality' and as such has been understood to express the speaker's commitment to the veridical force of an utterance. However, recently, scholars such as Aikhenvald (2003, 2004) present evidentiality as an independent grammatical category, the core function of which is to encode source of information. Likewise, mirativity, which is defined by DeLancey (1997, 2001) as the marking of new and unexpected information, also merits classification as an independent category. The analysis of mirativity and evidentiality in Magar across dialects (Syangja and Tanahu) supports the classification of evidentiality and mirativity as categories in their own right

Epistemic modality · Evidentiality · Norwegian · Utterance · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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