Evidential Systems of Tibetan Languages

• Author(s): Lauren Gawne, Nathan W. Hill,
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Pages: 478
• ISBN_10: 3110471876
  ISBN_13: 9783110471878
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative ,

Description:...

This edited volume brings together work on the evidential systems of
Tibetan languages. This includes diachronic research, synchronic
description of systems in individual Tibetan varieties and papers
addressing broader theoretical or typological questions. Evidentiality in
Tibetan languages interacts with other features of modality,
interactional context and speaker knowledge states in ways that provide
important perspectives for typologists and our general understanding of
evidential systems. This book provides the first sustained attempt to
capture this complexity and diversity from both a synchronic and
diachronic perspective.