Evidentiality in Akha - a preliminary discussion
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In this conference paper handout the author discusses eight different types of evidentials used to describe actions, factual knowledge, knowledge from witnessing, reaction to witnessing and hearing, action, etc. Example sentences used in this paper come from various stories and conversations collected by the author. Approximately 25 senteces were word-to-word-glossed for modern Akha and ritual Akha and English. This handout was used during the 38th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Langu…
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Date:
2005
Creator:
Hansson, Inga-Lill
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