UID:
edocfu_9959231246002883
Format:
xvi, 796 p. :
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ill.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-14411-5
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9786613144119
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90-272-8724-4
Series Statement:
Typological studies in language, v. 96
Content:
In a number of East and South-East Asian languages, certain grammatical elements such as pronouns, generic nouns, or demonstratives (e.g. one, thing, this) have acquired additional pragmatic functions. Well-documented examples of this grammaticalization process are the Mandarin de, the Malay punya/nya/mia and the Japanese no (cf. Yap, Matthews et al. 2004); the grammaticalized element occurs in the sentence-final position encoding speaker's certainty about the proposition. A similar development has taken place in Abui (a Papuan language of Eastern Indonesia); markers describing speaker's attitude towards a proposition (evidentiality and assertion) are recruited from two sources: (i) demonstratives and (ii) the utterance verb ba 'say'.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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pt. 1. Sinitic languages -- pt. 2. Tibeto-Burman languages -- pt. 3. Iranian languages -- pt. 4. Korean and Japanese languages -- pt. 5. Austronesian languages -- pt. 6. Papuan languages.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-0677-5
Language:
English
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