The tense-aspect system of Khorchin Mongolian

Brosig, Benjamin

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“…Only for -v, which has already lost most of the semantic space it once occupied and is on the verge of dropping out [[69]] of the past/perfective paradigm entirely, dispensing with a tense-based analysis might almost be possible. A similar case can be found in Khorchin (Brosig 2014b) where the cognate of -laa seems to have lost most of its disposition to form part of complex aspectual forms and, with the loss of evidentiality, might indeed have become an underdetermined marker of temporal proximity in the past or future.…”

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Factual vs. evidential? The past tense forms of spoken Khalkha Mongolian

Brosig¹

2018

Human Cognitive Processing

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Past tense forms of spoken Khalkha Mongolian distinguish between established (-sang) and non-established knowledge, which is then either based on direct (-laa) or indirect (-jee) evidence. Time of acquisition thus determines whether information source is marked, though vivid recollection (-laa) and deferred realization (-jee) overrule it. Conversely, attempted recollection in questions (-l=uu) doesn't presuppose sensory perception. A fourth suffix (-v) is used if well-established events still surprise the speaker. These suffixes may also be used in a discontinuous fashion to refer to the future and then modally qualify predictions as inevitable (-sang), apprehended [but preventable] (-v), based on sensory evidence (-laa) or inferred (-jee). The distinction between unsourced -sang and sourced -laa/-jee is thus not about factual stance, but codes the extent to which information is consolidated in memory. for comments on the draft of this chapter, to all my informants for their enormous contribution, and to all who supported me during this stay and later on. My research was financed by Stockholm University as my employer and the Sven och Dagmar Saléns stiftelse who funded my 7-month stay as a visiting researcher at the National University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar with 53270 SEK.

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Factual vs. evidential? The past tense forms of spoken Khalkha Mongolian

Brosig¹

2018

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Tense in Khorchin Mongolian: an interpersonal perspective

Zhang

2021

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The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality

2018

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Every language has a way of saying how one knows what one is talking about, and what one thinks about what one knows. In some languages, one always has to specify the information source on which it is based—whether the speaker saw the event, or heard it, or inferred it based on something seen or on common sense, or was told about it by someone else. This is the essence of evidentiality, or grammatical marking of information source—an exciting category loved by linguists, journalists, and the general public. This volume provides a state-of-the art view of evidentiality in its various guises, their role in cognition and discourse, child language acquisition, language contact, and language history, with a specific focus on languages which have grammatical evidentials, including numerous languages from North and South America, Eurasia and the Pacific, and also Japanese, Korean, and signed languages.

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The tense-aspect system of Khorchin Mongolian

Cited by 47 publications

References 10 publications

Factual vs. evidential? The past tense forms of spoken Khalkha Mongolian

Factual vs. evidential? The past tense forms of spoken Khalkha Mongolian

Tense in Khorchin Mongolian: an interpersonal perspective

The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality

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