[Lingtyp] Evidentiality (including some new phenomena in Tariana, an Arawak language from Amazonia) - two new papers

[Alexandra Aikhenvald]

Dear colleagues and friends



I would like to share with you two recent papers on mine, dealing with evidentiality, including the expression of shared information source across languages, and a new approach to the multifaceted semantics of evidentials. In the most recent paper, ‘Speaking about knowledge’, you will see a discussion of the interaction between evidentiality, egophoricity, and mirativity which may lead to a new take on semantic typology of evidentials (a continuation of what has been done within the Oxford Handbook of evidentiality, now coming out in paperback with some corrections, later this year).



A note is in order.

All the information on Tariana - an endangered and yet vital Arawak language of North-west Amazonia, Brazil - is based on immersion fieldwork with the speakers of Tariana, over the past 30 years or so. The analysis in all my work (including the 2003 grammar, the Oxford Handbook, and umpteen other papers) is based on fieldwork, careful analysos and also on speakers’ intuitions, comments, and our discussions.



An unfortunate incident has been recently brought to my attention. Someone by the name of 'Zemp' (currently at the University of Bern?), has been making quasi-typological pronouncements, spuriously and gratuitously misinterpreting the Tariana markers of visual evidentiality as something else. Naturally, his work does not make sense (see attached, for instance). Zemp does not know the first thing about the language - which is obvious from his 'typologies'.


We, grammar analysts, are no strangers to spurious re-interpretations by those who have little understanding of the languages they dare ‘reinterpret’ and even less of linguistic typology. However, such misinterpretations are worrying and upsetting for all, including the speakers themselves. If Zemp has any vestiges of honesty, he will make a public apology to the Tariana Nation.



 Best wishes

Sacha

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, PhD, DLitt, FAHA, FQAAS, MAE

Professorial Research Fellow and Australian Laureate Fellow

Jawun Centre (formerly Centre for Indigenous Health Equity Research), Central Queensland University

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Foundation Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre (JCU)

Consultant, OED (South American languages)

phone 61-400305315

http://www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com/;

https://staff-profiles.cqu.edu.au/home/view/25682<https://mcas-proxyweb.mcas.ms/certificate-checker?login=false&originalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fstaff-profiles.cqu.edu.au.mcas.ms%2Fhome%2Fview%2F25682%3FMcasTsid%3D20893>

https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/view/all/ADD43F35E4ED54959A3F28C152248725.html

https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Aikhenvald_Alexandraalternative e-mail: a.aikhenvald at cqu.edu.au, nyamamayratakw at gmail.com, goldagorb at yahoo.com

Serial Verbs                  The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality

By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald                                              Edited By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Now available from Oxford University Press<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/serial-verbs-9780198791263?cc=au&lang=en&>                 Now available from Oxford University Press<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-evidentiality-9780198759515?cc=au&lang=en&>

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My new book is https://profilebooks.com/work/i-saw-the-dog<https://profilebooks.com/work/i-saw-the-dog/>.

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