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The Selkup verb grammeme of «indirect visual evidentiality»: an exception or a typological regularity?
Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
Ключевые слова
selkup language, sensory evidentials, opposition of visual and non-visual gram-memes, interliguistic similarities, diachronic typology
Abstract
The paper studies the semantic structure of the Selkup verb grammeme with the basic meaning of «indirect visual evidentiality / perception / of the situation» and substantiates its typological regularity in the languages possessing the system of sensory evidential grammemes: visual and non-visual ones.
Bibliographic reference
Il’yina L’udmila Alekseevna. The Selkup verb grammeme of «indirect visual evidentiality»: an exception or a typological regularity? // Сибирский филологический журнал. 2013. № 1. Pp. 152–159.