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Language and Linguistics
Vol. 20:4 (2019) ► pp.515–534

Egophoric marking and person indexation in Japhug

| Southwest University (ICLD) | CNRS (CRLAO)

Japhug, like other Gyalrong languages, is one of the very few languages with both a full-fledged person indexation system and an egophoric evidential category. A detailed account of the uses and meanings of the Egophoric and its interaction with person is thus of interest to the typology of evidential systems. This paper describes the uses of Egophoric marking in Japhug and of the other two evidential categories with which it contrasts (Factual and Sensory), as well as their interaction with person indexation. Due to the limited distribution of the Egophoric in Japhug (it only occurs in present contexts), the present paper exclusively focuses on the uses of evidentials with stative verbs in present (imperfective) contexts, where minimal pairs are available in the corpus.

Keywords: Egophoric, Factual, Sensory, mirative, Hybrid Indirect Speech, conjunct/disjunct, person indexation
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 1.Morphological categories
    • 1.1The tripartite system
    • 1.2Person indexation
  • 2.Declarative clauses
    • 2.1Factual
    • 2.2Sensory
    • 2.3Egophoric
    • 2.4Japhug and Tibetan
    • 2.5The expression of surprise
  • 3.Interrogative clauses
  • 4.Reported speech
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
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Published online: 24 September 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00047.jac
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