Janis B. Nuckolls

List of John Benjamins publications for which Janis B. Nuckolls plays a role.

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Evidentiality in Interaction

Edited by Janis B. Nuckolls and Lev Michael

[Benjamins Current Topics, 63] 2014. v, 199 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics

Evidentiality in Interaction

Edited by Janis B. Nuckolls and Lev Michael

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 3:2 (2012) v, 191 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Using data from the Northern Pastaza (qvc) and Upper Napo Quichua (quw) dialects of Amazonian Ecuador, this paper argues that the semantics of ideophones, a highly marked form class of expressive words, is principled and describable with a combination of sensori-semantic features and a… read more
Nuckolls, Janis B. 2019 Chapter 7. The sensori-semantic clustering of ideophonic meaning in Pastaza QuichuaIdeophones, Mimetics and Expressives, Akita, Kimi and Prashant Pardeshi (eds.), pp. 167–198 | Chapter
I formulate an approach to ideophone semantics which, though based on a corpus from Pastaza Quichua, a South American indigenous language, has potential for analyzing the semantics of ideophone systems more generally. Research on ideophones’ formal properties has preoccupied an increasing number of… read more
Nuckolls, Janis B. 2014 From quotative other to quotative self: Evidential usage in Pastaza QuichuaEvidentiality in Interaction, Nuckolls, Janis B. and Lev Michael (eds.), pp. 57–73 | Article
Evidentials in Pastaza Quichua, an Amazonian dialect of Ecuadorian Quechua, are examined and their uses in narratives compared. The novel contribution of this chapter is to show, by comparing data from personal experience narratives, that evidentials are used to convey speaker subjectivity, rather… read more
Nuckolls, Janis B. 2014 Ideophones’ challenges for typological linguistics: The case of Pastaza QuichuaIdeophones: Between Grammar and Poetry, Lahti, Katherine, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster (eds.), pp. 355–383 | Article
Typological studies of motion verbs have struggled to conceptualize a framework that would adequately account for languages which make use of ideophoness for expressing manner of motion. This paper examines ideophones in the Pastaza Quichua dialect of Amazonian Ecuador, with a special focus on the… read more
Nuckolls, Janis B. and Lev Michael 2014 Evidentials and evidential strategies in interactional and socio-cultural contextEvidentiality in Interaction, Nuckolls, Janis B. and Lev Michael (eds.), pp. 13–20 | Article
Nuckolls, Janis B. 2012 From quotative other to quotative self: Evidential usage in Pastaza QuichuaEvidentiality in Interaction, Nuckolls, Janis B. and Lev Michael (eds.), pp. 226–242 | Article
Evidentials in Pastaza Quichua, an Amazonian dialect of Ecuadorian Quechua, are examined and their uses in narratives compared. The novel contribution of this paper is to show, by comparing data from personal experience narratives, that evidentials are used to convey speaker subjectivity, rather… read more
Nuckolls, Janis B. and Lev Michael 2012 Evidentials and evidential strategies in interactional and socio-cultural contextEvidentiality in Interaction, Nuckolls, Janis B. and Lev Michael (eds.), pp. 181–188 | Article
Nuckolls, Janis B. 2001 Ideophones in Pastaza QuechuaIdeophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard and Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.), pp. 271–285 | Article