Article published in:
The Conversation Frame: Forms and functions of fictive interaction
Edited by Esther Pascual and Sergeiy Sandler
[Human Cognitive Processing 55] 2016
► pp. 255–275

Evidential fictive interaction (in Ungarinyin and Russian)

| University of Leuven, The Netherlands

This chapter introduces and examines the notion of “evidential fictive participants” and their grammatical expression in utterances of fictive interaction. It focuses on fictive direct speech constructions and draws on examples from the Australian Aboriginal language Ungarinyin and Russian. After presenting data from these languages the chapter suggests that through the notion of participants fictive interaction forms a framework for grammatical typology. This framework has both a strong philosophical and analytical foundation and allows for an integrated approach to grammatical categories based on their relation to the conversation frame.

Keywords: evidentiality, participant types, Russian, Ungarinyin, verbal categories
Published online: 01 November 2016
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.55.13spr
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