The interaction between tense and evidentials of event perception and deduction in Brazilian Native languages
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Marize Mattos Dall'Aglio Hattnher
Abstract
This chapter discusses the relationship between evidentiality and tense in order to determine how the semantic differences between deduction and event perception evidentials are reflected in their combination with tense markers. I analyse a sample of 34 Brazilian native languages with grammaticalized evidential systems. This analysis is supported by the classification of evidentiality proposed by Hengeveld and Dall’Aglio Hattnher (submitted) and the concept of ‘double tense’ proposed by Fleck (2007). The data shows that there are few absolute restrictions on the occurrence of evidentiality in a specific tense. Nevertheless, it can be said that, when evidentiality and tense are fused in the same system, it is the semantics of evidentiality that determines the tense options.
Abstract
This chapter discusses the relationship between evidentiality and tense in order to determine how the semantic differences between deduction and event perception evidentials are reflected in their combination with tense markers. I analyse a sample of 34 Brazilian native languages with grammaticalized evidential systems. This analysis is supported by the classification of evidentiality proposed by Hengeveld and Dall’Aglio Hattnher (submitted) and the concept of ‘double tense’ proposed by Fleck (2007). The data shows that there are few absolute restrictions on the occurrence of evidentiality in a specific tense. Nevertheless, it can be said that, when evidentiality and tense are fused in the same system, it is the semantics of evidentiality that determines the tense options.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Abbreviations vii
- Introduction 1
- A new approach to clausal constituent order 15
- The interaction between tense and evidentials of event perception and deduction in Brazilian Native languages 39
- Spatial adpositions between lexicon and grammar 67
- On the representation of roots, stems and finals in Blackfoot 95
- Conceptual representation and formulation 125
- External possessors and related constructions in Functional Discourse Grammar 155
- Time reference in English indirect speech 189
- The X is ( is ) construction 213
- Raising in Functional Discourse Grammar 249
- Objective and subjective deontic modal necessity in FDG – evidence from Spanish auxiliary expressions 277
- Name index 301
- Language index 305
- Subject index 309
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Abbreviations vii
- Introduction 1
- A new approach to clausal constituent order 15
- The interaction between tense and evidentials of event perception and deduction in Brazilian Native languages 39
- Spatial adpositions between lexicon and grammar 67
- On the representation of roots, stems and finals in Blackfoot 95
- Conceptual representation and formulation 125
- External possessors and related constructions in Functional Discourse Grammar 155
- Time reference in English indirect speech 189
- The X is ( is ) construction 213
- Raising in Functional Discourse Grammar 249
- Objective and subjective deontic modal necessity in FDG – evidence from Spanish auxiliary expressions 277
- Name index 301
- Language index 305
- Subject index 309
