Evidentiality in Dena’ina Athabaskan  

Oleh:

Holton, Gary

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 50 no. 3-4 (2008), page 292-323.
Fulltext: 20639007.pdf (2.71MB)

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Dena’ina evidentials are enclitics with a complex paradigmatic morphology. Their first component varies with person, while the second component varies with animacy and number, thus marking source and nature of knowledge. Although evidentiality in Dena’ina is not coded as an obligatory inflectional category on the verb, it is also not scattered throughout the grammar. The existence of an incipient inflectional evidential system demonstrates the ability of Athabaskan languages to innovate morphological structures outside the verb. The uniqueness of the Dena’ina system demonstrates the heterogeneity of Athabaskan grammar beyond the verb word.

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