From narrative past to mirativity and direct evidentiality: the case of Moldavian (Csángó) Hungarian

IF 0.6 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
K. Kiss
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Abstract This paper describes the evolution of grammaticalized evidentiality in the Moldavian dialect of Hungarian. It documents how the suffix -a/e, originally the marker of narrative past, became a rare, elevated marker of past tense highlighting significant past events; how it assumed a mirative overtone; and how the features ʻwitnessedʼ and ʻimmediate pastʼ, often present in mirative utterances, became inherent parts of its meaning. This grammaticalization path has resulted in an evidential system with typologically unique features. It is a two-term system based on the opposition of direct evidentiality and no evidentiality – violating the alleged universal that if a language has grammaticalized direct evidentiality, it has also grammaticalized indirect evidentiality. Mirative meaning is expressed by the same -a/e suffix that also encodes direct evidentiality – whereas it is claimed to be the extension of inferred evidentiality elsewhere. The unique properties of Moldavian Hungarian evidentiality are derived from the historical evolution of the -a/e suffix.
从过去的叙述到虚构和直接证据:摩尔达维亚(Csángó)匈牙利人的案例
摘要本文描述了匈牙利语摩尔达维亚方言中语法化证据性的演变。它记录了后缀-a/e,最初是过去叙述的标记,如何成为一个罕见的,提升的过去时态标记,突出过去的重要事件;它是如何呈现出一种沉思的泛音;以及经常出现在沉思话语中的“目睹”和“刚刚过去”的特征如何成为其含义的固有部分。这种语法化路径导致了一个具有类型学独特特征的证据系统。它是一种基于直接证据性与无证据性对立的二元体系,违背了所谓的普遍性,即如果一种语言将直接证据性语法化了,那么它也将间接证据性语法化了。镜像意义由同样编码直接证据的-a/e后缀表达,而它被认为是其他地方推断证据的延伸。摩尔多瓦匈牙利语证据性的独特属性源于-a/e后缀的历史演变。
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Folia Linguistica
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期刊介绍: Folia Linguistica covers all non-historical areas in the traditional disciplines of general linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics), and also sociological, discoursal, computational and psychological aspects of language and linguistic theory. Other areas of central concern are grammaticalization and language typology. The journal consists of scientific articles presenting results of original research, review articles, overviews of research in specific areas, book reviews, and a miscellanea section carrying reports and discussion notes. In addition, proposals from prospective guest editors for occasional special issues on selected current topics are welcomed.
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