Essays about: "Nakh-Daghestanska"

Found 1 essay containing the word Nakh-Daghestanska.

  1. 1. A comparative study of egophoric marking : Investigating its relation to person and epistemic marking in three language families

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Dominique Knuchel; [2015]
    Keywords : egophoricity; person indexing; epistemic marking; Tibeto-Burman; Barbacoan; Nakh-Daghestanian; egoforicitet; personböjning; epistemiska markörer; Barbacoanska; Nakh-Daghestanska; Tibetoburmesiska;

    Abstract : Egophoric marking as a potentially categorical expression in language is conceived of as a binary semantic contrast that marks an event as either involving one of the speech act participants (egophoric), or as one that does not (non-egophoric). Prima facie, the egophoric marking pattern resembles person indexing and has been interpreted as such. READ MORE