TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arakaki,Tomoko
TI  - Evidentials in Ryukyuan: the Shuri variety of Luchuan : a typological and theoretical study of grammatical evidentiality 
T2  - Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture
SN  - 9789004253407
AV  - PL693.R9 A73 2013
U1  - 495.6 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Ryukyuan language
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Dialects
KW  - Grammar, Comparative
KW  - Japanese
KW  - Terms and phrases
KW  - Japanese language
KW  - History
N1  - Revised edition of the author's Ph.D thesis from University of Edinburgh, 2011; titled Evidentials in the Shuri Dialect of Luchuan (Ryukyuan), published under the name Tomoko Arakaki Shimabukuro; Includes index; Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Direct Evidential -- 3 Inferential and Assumed Evidentials -- 4 The Reportative Evidential -- 5 Evidentiality as a Grammatical Category -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Evidentiality, the linguistic category which marks the source of the speaker’s information, has often been overlooked in studies of Luchuan (Ryukyuan), the only sister language of Japanese. In this book, Arakaki provides the first comprehensive analysis of Luchuan evidentials. She proposes that Luchuan has a grammatical evidential system which contains one Direct evidential and three indirect evidentials (Inference, Assumed, and Reportative). The discussion includes cross-linguistic issues such as how evidentiality is related to epistemic modality, with the intention that this work should constitute a contribution to the typological and theoretical study of evidentiality. This work will open new horizons for the study of evidentiality
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004253407
ER  -