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The encoding of addressee’s perspective in Kakataibo (Panoan, Peru)

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Published/Copyright: June 17, 2015

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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