Article published in:
Studies in Language
Vol. 38:2 (2014) ► pp. 393–404

The auditory demonstrative in Khaling

This paper shows the existence of an auditory demonstrative in Khaling. The use of the demonstrative is illustrated via examples taken from narrative discourse. It is described here within the context of the spatial demonstrative system, in order to demonstrate how it is specifically used to highlight that perception of the referent is attained using the sense of audition, regardless of the visibility of the object in question. Khaling appears to be unique in having a true auditory demonstrative and it is hoped that this description will prompt field linguists to refine the description of the contrasts found within the demonstrative systems of languages around the world.
Keywords: Kiranti languages, demonstratives, Khaling, spatial deixis, audition, cross-modal perception
Published online: 08 August 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.38.2.05jac
References
Aikhenvald, Alexandra
2004 Evidentiality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Aikhenvald, Alexandra, and R.M.W. Dixon
2014 The grammar of knowledge: a cross-linguistic view of evidentials, and the expression of information source. Oxford: Oxford University Press. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Biber, Douglas
2010 Corpus-based and corpus-driven analyses. In The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis, ed. Berndt Heine and Heiko Narrog, 159–192. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Bickel, Balthasar
1999 Nominalization and focus constructions in some Kiranti languages. In Topics in Nepalese Linguistics, ed. Yogendra P. Yadava and Warren G. Glover, 271 – 296. Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy.Google Scholar
2001 Deictic Transposition and Referential Practice in Belhare. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 10.2:224–247. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Boas, Franz
1911 Kwakiutl. In Handbook of American Indian Languages. Part 1, ed. Franz Boas, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 401, 423–557. Smithsonian Institution.Google Scholar
Bril, Isabelle
2013 Unpublished fieldwork notes on Yuanga.
Diessel, Holger
1999 Demonstratives: Form, Function, and Grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Dixon, Robert M.W
1972 The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
van Driem, George
1993 A Grammar of Dumi. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Genetti, Carol, Ellen Bartee, Alec Coupe, Kristine Hildebrandt, and Youjing Lin
2008 Syntactic aspects of nominalization in five Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayan area. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 31.2:97–144.Google Scholar
Jacques, Guillaume, Aimée Lahaussois, Boyd Michailovsky, and Dhan Bahadur Rai
2012 An overview of Khaling verbal morphology. Language and linguistics 13.6:1095–1170.Google Scholar
Matisoff, James
1972 Lahu nominalization, relativization, and genetivization. In Syntax and semantics, Vol 11, ed. John Kimball, 237–257. New York: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Michailovsky, Boyd
1988 La langue hayu. Paris: Editions du CNRS.Google Scholar
Neukom, Lukas
2001 Santali. München: Lincom Europa.Google Scholar
Opgenort, Jean-Robert
2004 A Grammar of Wambule. Leiden: Brill.Google Scholar
Oswalt, Robert L
1986 The evidential system of Kashaya. In Evidentiality: The Linguistic Coding of Epistemology, ed. Wallace L. Chafe and Johanna Nichols, 29–45. Norwood, NJ:Ablex.Google Scholar
Ozanne-Rivierre, Françoise
1997 Spatial references in New Caledonian languages. In Referring to Space. Studies in Austronesian and Papuan Languages, ed. Gunter Senft. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Google Scholar
Rutgers, Roland
1998 Yamphu, Grammars, Texts and Lexicon. Leiden: Research School CNWS.Google Scholar
Toba, Sueyoshi, and Ingrid Toba
1975 A Khaling-English, English-Khaling Glossary. Kathmandu: Summer Institute of Linguistics.Google Scholar
van den Berg, René
1997 Spatial deixis in Muna (Sulawesi). In Referring to Space: Studies in Austronesian and Papuan Languages, ed. G. Senft, 197–220. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Walker, Neil Alexander
2013 A Grammar of Southern Pomo, An Indigenous Language of California. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara.Google Scholar
Yap, F-H., K. Grunow-Hårsta, and J. Wrona
2011 Nominalization in Asian Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Cited by

Cited by 3 other publications

EVANS, NICHOLAS, HENRIK BERGQVIST & LILA SAN ROQUE
2018. The grammar of engagement II: typology and diachrony. Language and Cognition 10:1 ► pp. 141 ff. Crossref logo
Lahaussois, Aimeé
2017. Ideophones in Khaling Rai. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 40:2 ► pp. 179 ff. Crossref logo
San Roque, Lila
2019. Evidentiality. Annual Review of Anthropology 48:1 ► pp. 353 ff. Crossref logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 18 april 2022. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.