A survey of three adverbial clitics in Purepecha and their relation with evidentiality and epistemic modality
This paper describes the evidential clitic =nha in Purepecha, alongside two other clitics of epistemic value: =mintu and =xeru. It is shown that =mintu expresses a high degree of certainty, while =xeru corresponds to a low degree of certainty. Moreover, the use of =mintu does not present restriction...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx:article/7 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/7 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | modality evidentials clitics Purepecha modalidad evidenciales clíticos purépecha |
| Sumario: | This paper describes the evidential clitic =nha in Purepecha, alongside two other clitics of epistemic value: =mintu and =xeru. It is shown that =mintu expresses a high degree of certainty, while =xeru corresponds to a low degree of certainty. Moreover, the use of =mintu does not present restrictions as to whether the evidence is direct or indirect, unlike languages like Spanish or English, where theuse of a modal of epistemic necessity is only felicitous in contexts of indirect evidence (von Fintel and Gillies 2006). |
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