Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: Oceanic Linguistics
DOI: 10.1353/ol.2016.0020
Authors: Jason Brown, Tyler Peterson, Kimberley Craig
Institution: University of Auckland
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2560057233