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Epistemic Modality in Standard Spoken Tibetan: Epistemic Verbal Endings and Copulas
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Epistemic Modality in Standard Spoken Tibetan: Epistemic Verbal Endings and Copulas
Current price: $30.00
Barnes and Noble
Epistemic Modality in Standard Spoken Tibetan: Epistemic Verbal Endings and Copulas
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The Sino-Tibetan language family is the second largest in the world, and standard Tibetan is the most widely spoken language in the Tibetic group. A comprehensive introduction to epistemicity in standard spoken Tibetan, this book examines the grammatical expression of a variety of epistemic modalitiesrather, the myriad ways in which a speaker indicates their confidence in the knowledge on which their statement is basedthrough numerous examples of epistemic types. It elucidates the complex system of epistemic verbal endings and epistemic copulas, or connecting words, employed in the spoken language, analyzing them from semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic viewpoints.