Intersubjectivity and engagement in Ku Waru

Following Evans et al. (2018a, 2018b), I use “engagement” to refer to grammatical encoding of the relative accessibility of an entity or state of affairs to the speaker and addressee. I refer to what is thereby encoded as the “engagement function”. How neatly does that function map on to grammatical...

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Main Author: Rumsey Alan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-04-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0003