TY - JOUR
T1 - Belief, evidence, and interactional meaning in Urama
AU - Brown, Jason
AU - Peterson, Tyler
AU - Craig, Kimberley
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/12
Y1 - 2016/12
N2 - In Urama, there are two clause-final particles, ka and ra, that encode a variety of both semantic and pragmatic meanings. While previous approaches have treated these particles as clause-type markers or evidential morphemes, this paper argues that one of these particles, ka, has another previously undocumented function in conversation: to mark speaker-knowledge and what the speaker assumes the addressee to know. We term these interactional uses of ka and ra. Functionally, the interactional use of ka follows from its clause-typing and speech act properties. Theoretically, Urama represents a language that has a grammatical strategy for tracking information in the Common Ground, which is close in spirit to evidentiality and clause-typing, but qualitatively different.
AB - In Urama, there are two clause-final particles, ka and ra, that encode a variety of both semantic and pragmatic meanings. While previous approaches have treated these particles as clause-type markers or evidential morphemes, this paper argues that one of these particles, ka, has another previously undocumented function in conversation: to mark speaker-knowledge and what the speaker assumes the addressee to know. We term these interactional uses of ka and ra. Functionally, the interactional use of ka follows from its clause-typing and speech act properties. Theoretically, Urama represents a language that has a grammatical strategy for tracking information in the Common Ground, which is close in spirit to evidentiality and clause-typing, but qualitatively different.
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U2 - 10.1353/ol.2016.0020
DO - 10.1353/ol.2016.0020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85005995932
SN - 0029-8115
VL - 55
SP - 432
EP - 448
JO - Oceanic Linguistics
JF - Oceanic Linguistics
IS - 2
ER -