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155. Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre
How do genre and narrative context condition the distribution of tense-aspect and evidential clause-final forms?
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ruwe ne as the narrative clause-final default
What is the default clause-final evidential form in narrative genres?
atuy kor kamuy a=ne hine an=an ru-we ne
sea have god 4.A=COP CONJ exist=4.S track-POSS COP
‘I am the god who holds the sea.’
Tenseless narration and aspectual foregrounding
How is temporal sequencing achieved in the absence of tense morphology?
rek kor okay
cry while exist.PL
‘(she) was crying’
Fourth-person narration: genre-universal and regionally split
How is the protagonist indexed differently from the actual speaker?
yaykeste=an wa tan uske ta ek=an wa an=an ruwe ne korka
wander.about=4.S CONJ DEM place LOC come=4.S CONJ exist=4.S track-POSS COP but
‘I wandered about and came to this place and have been living here, but …’
Quotative density and the reportative frame
How is direct speech and reported discourse structured at clause boundaries?
sekor kane hawean hawe as ruwe ne akusu ora
QUOT CONJ say voice-POSS exist track-POSS COP CONJ CONJ
‘… a voice said so, and then …’
aysirkamuy epirma hawe ne nankor ruwe ne
ghost teach voice-POSS COP probably track-POSS COP
‘… it was probably the ghosts (of your parents) who told you so.’
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