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From narrative past to mirativity and direct evidentiality: the case of Moldavian (Csángó) Hungarian by Katalin É. Kiss is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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This paper describes the evolution of grammaticalized evidentiality in the Moldavian dialect of Hungarian. It documents how the suffix -a/e, originally the marker of narrative past, became a rare, elevated marker of past tense highlighting significant past events; how it assumed a mirative overtone; and how the features ʻwitnessedʼ and ʻimmediate pastʼ, often present in mirative utterances, became inherent parts of its meaning. This grammaticalization path has resulted in an evidential system with typologically unique features. It is a two-term system based on the opposition of direct evidentiality and no evidentialityviolating the alleged universal that if a language has grammaticalized direct evidentiality, it has also grammaticalized indirect evidentiality. Mirative meaning is expressed by the same -a/e suffix that also encodes direct evidentialitywhereas it is claimed to be the extension of inferred evidentiality elsewhere. The unique properties of Moldavian Hungarian evidentiality are derived from the historical evolution of the -a/e suffix.
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- Author
- Katalin É. Kiss
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)