Epistemic authority and sociolinguistic stance in an Australian Aboriginal language
Murrinhpatha, an Aboriginal language of northern Australia, has an initial k-alternation in verbs that has hitherto been resistant to grammatical analysis. I argue that k-does not encode any feature of event structure, but rather signals the speaker’s epistemic primacy over the addressee. This autho...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2019-04-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0002 |