[Lingtyp] Evidentiality

[zemp marius]

Dear colleagues and friends,



Assuming that Prof. Aikhenvald referred to me in her post from yesterday, I
would like to post a brief reply here. My name is Marius Zemp, and I am
indeed working at the University of Bern, currently in the project
‘Evidentiality in Time and Space’ headed by Prof. Fernando Zúñiga and
funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.



While I had for a long time focused on accounting for the various
evidential contrasts found throughout the Tibetic language family (which do
not fit well into the traditional framework, mainly due to their inherent
link with egophoricity, see the talk of Zemp, Brosig & Zúñiga at the SLE
2021, found on my academia profile), the mentioned project has given me the
opportunity to look at related phenomena not only in many other Himalayan
languages but also those of other regions of the world. I was able to
present some of my findings at last year’s ALT conference, in a
presentation entitled ‘Equipollent evidential contrasts, and reversing the
burden of proof regarding formally unmarked verb forms’. In this
presentation (which you can also find on my academia profile), I question
not only the ‘visual evidential’ analysis of Tariana V-*ka*, but also that
of all other formally unmarked ‘visual evidentials’ discussed in
Aikhenvald’s (2004) section 3.2.2 on formal markedness, see the Table below
(from my ALT talk) for an overview.

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Regarding your appeal that I should apologize to the Tariana Nation – My
colleagues and I agree that a community owns the language but not its
analysis, and that it is a basic principle of social science that any data
published are there for linguists to discuss and reanalyze.



Yours sincerely,

Marius Zemp
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