"It seems" is a construction: the category of inference in Wa'ikhana (Eastern Tukano)

Authors

  • Bruna Cezario Soares Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Kristina Balykova Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Kristine Stenzel Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n1a15371

Keywords:

evidentiality, East Tukanon languages, Construction Grammar, functional-cognitive linguistics, functional typology.

Abstract

This article investigates the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the construction that expresses the evidential category of inference in Wa'ikhana (East Tukano). Using the principles of Construction Grammar, we discuss the relation between form and function, arguing that the semantic function of this construction is not predictable from its component parts. However, it is possible to motivate the properties of the construction by relating it to other known constructions in the language.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v14n1a15371

Author Biographies

Bruna Cezario Soares, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Mestranda da Pós-graduação em Linguística da UFRJ

Kristina Balykova, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Mestranda da Pós-graduação em Linguística da UFRJ

Kristine Stenzel, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Professora Assiociada da Faculdade de Letras da UFRJ

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Published

2018-04-30

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2018): Construction Grammar

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