Abstract
This paper studies forms attested in Kakataibo (Panoan, Peru) for situating the information presented by the speaker from the perspective of the addressee. The constructions discussed can satisfactorily be accounted for by means of the notions of epistemic status and epistemic stance, which have to do with the knowing status of speech act participants and how it is expressed in grammar. Salient characteristics of the mechanisms used in Kakataibo to encode addressee’s perspective are the diversity of the relevant forms, which come from two different paradigms, and the semantic and pragmatic features that play a role in their distribution.
Abbreviations
- >
interclausal switch-reference tracking (dependent > main)
- 1
first person
- 2
second person
- 3
third person
- a
transitive subject
- abs
absolutive
- accu
accusatory speech act
- affir
affirmative
- com
comitative
- cert
certitudinal
- da/s/p
different subjects and objects
- des
desiderative
- dub
dubitative
- emph
emphatic
- erg
ergative
- fact
factitive
- gen
genitive
- int
interrogative
- loc
locative
- mir
mirative
- neg
negative
- non.prox
non-proximal to the addressee
- nomlz
nominalizer
- p
transitive object
- pe
previous dependent event
- perf
perfective
- prog
progressive
- prox
proximal to the addressee
- rem.pas
remote past
- s
intransitive subject
- sg
singular
- se
simultaneous dependent event
- top
topic
- unm
unmarked
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Epistemic marking and multiple perspective: An introduction
- The encoding of addressee’s perspective in Kakataibo (Panoan, Peru)
- Refracting views: How to construct complex perspective in reported speech and thought in Ungarinyin
- Using you to get to me: Addressee perspective and speaker stance in Duna evidential marking
- (Inter)subjectivity in interaction: Investigating (inter)subjective meanings in Yurakaré conversational data
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Epistemic marking and multiple perspective: An introduction
- The encoding of addressee’s perspective in Kakataibo (Panoan, Peru)
- Refracting views: How to construct complex perspective in reported speech and thought in Ungarinyin
- Using you to get to me: Addressee perspective and speaker stance in Duna evidential marking
- (Inter)subjectivity in interaction: Investigating (inter)subjective meanings in Yurakaré conversational data