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Knowledge base · Part XIX — Discourse and the Grammar of Oral Literature

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?

ジャンルと物語文脈が時制・アスペクトと証拠性の文末形式の分布をどのように条件づけるか?

Genre-quantified distribution of tense-aspect and the evidential clause-final system in connected narrative discourse.

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ruwe ne 21uwepeker 4sakorpe 4hawe ne 4hawe as 4=an 4ruwe 3akusu 3ku= 3a= 3ci= 3sekor 3isoytak 3ye 3siri 2kamuy yukar 2yukar 2hine 2kor okay 2wa okay 2anki 2=as 2kane 2hawe 1humi 1siri ne 1humi ne 1hike 1a 1… ruwe ne a p 1wa 1wa an 1kor an 1rok wa okay 1yaykoan wa an 1paye-an anki 1Ainu Shin'yōshū 1ek 1=en 1arki=an 1

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Overview: genre conditions clause-final choice 7 sentences

How does genre condition the choice of clause-final evidential forms?

ruwe ne as the narrative clause-final default 12 sentences· 1 examples

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.’
hirosawa2026:77 SAR Wateke, Tamura audio materials 05-02 'Folktale 1': 6

Tenseless narration and aspectual foregrounding 10 sentences· 1 examples

How is temporal sequencing achieved in the absence of tense morphology?

rek kor okay
cry while exist.PL
‘(she) was crying’
sato2009yukar:§2.2.1 HOR Abuta/Iburi yukar, narrator 遠島タンケ (Tōshima Tanke), l. 46; Satō 2009: §2.2.1

Fourth-person narration: genre-universal and regionally split 17 sentences· 1 examples

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 …’
ilcaa1976 SAR Kawakami Matsuko, uwepeker 10

Quotative density and the reportative frame 9 sentences· 2 examples

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 …’
biratori1969 SAR Kimura Kimi, ウエペケㇾ『チナナサパ』ホッチャリの頭 [biratori/020/002#48]
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.’
biratori1969 SAR Nabesawa Nepuki, ウエペケㇾ『アアチャハ イレス』私の叔父に育てられた [biratori/016/010#164]

Genre-conditioned distribution: a comparison 6 sentences

How do genres differ in metre, refrain, narrator gender, and evidential profile?

Elegant register, applicative morphology, and poetic verse language 9 sentences

What distinguishes the elegant register from everyday language in verse?

Prose intonation and genre-conditioned phonetics 5 sentences

How does sentence intonation vary with genre?

Debates and limitations 9 sentences

What are the contested issues regarding the semantic status of the narrative evidential?