Edited by Sonia Cristofaro and Fernando Zúñiga
[Typological Studies in Language 121] 2018
► pp. 343–376
Chapter 10Deictic and sociopragmatic effects in Tibeto-Burman SAP
indexation
The study of hierarchical argument indexation systems shows that while the ranking of both 1st and 2nd person over other arguments is robust and reliable, it is impossible to find any compelling crosslinguistic evidence for one or the other ranking of the two Speech Act Participants, and rare to find a consistent ranking even within a single language. This paper assembles and reviews historical changes in the indexation of the “local” categories (1→2 and 2→1) in a number of Tibeto-Burman languages. We see that the fundamental deictic ranking SAP > 3 is conservative, and inverse marking to emphasize that ranking has been reinvented several times in the family. Changes in the marking of local categories are more diverse, but two phenomena recur independently in different languages and branches: a tendency for the 1→2 form to be uniquely marked, sometimes with forms which are not synchronically relatable to anything else in the paradigm, and a contrasting tendency for the 2→1 form to merge with the marking of 3→1. I propose that these tendencies reflect what I call sociopragmatic effects, i.e. the socially delicate nature of any and all natural utterances involving both the speaker and the addressee.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Problems of hierarchy
- 2.1The structure of hierarchical paradigms
- 2.2Problems of local indexation
- 2.3Accounts of hierarchy
- 2.4Sociopragmatic effects in Tibeto-Burman morphological change
- 3.Deictic effects in hierarchical systems
- 3.1The original inverse in Rgyalrongic
- 3.2Innovative inverses in Northern Naga
- 4.Sociopragmatic effects in hierarchical indexation systems
- 4.1Merger of 1O forms in Kiranti
- 4.2The “marked scenario”
- 5.Deictic and sociopragmatic effects
- 5.1Reviewing the evidence
- 5.2Typology, genre, and person
- 5.3Patterns
- 5.4 Sociopragmatic just-so stories: It’s always about you
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.121.10del
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