Evidentials in Ryukyuan : the Shuri variety of Luchuan : a typological and theoretical study of grammatical evidentiality / / by Tomoko Arakaki.

• Author: Arakaki, Tomoko.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Notes: Revised edition of the author's Ph.D thesis from University of Edinburgh, 2011; titled Evidentials in the Shuri Dialect of Luchuan (Ryukyuan), published under the name Tomoko Arakaki Shimabukuro.; Includes index.

Evidentiality, the linguistic category which marks the source of the speaker’s information, has often been overlooked in studies of Luchuan (Ryukyuan), the only sister language of Japanese. In this book, Arakaki provides the first comprehensive analysis of Luchuan evidentials. She proposes that Luch...