The Structure Of Evidential Categories In Wanka Quechua

The Study Of Evidentiality Is In Its Relative Infancy, And Each New Study In This Largely Unexplored Area Of Linguistic Structure Reveals Subtleties Of Grammatical And Semantic Behavior That Give Reason To Reconsider And Deepen Analyses Found In Previous WorksEvidentiality Is Usually Discussed In Terms Of The Kinds Of Justification ASpeaker Has For Making AParticular AssertionWhen The Author First Began Studying The Wanka Quechua Language, He Was Immediately Struck With The Fact That The Evidential System Was Not Behaving As He Had ExpectedCareful Consideration Of The Individual Markers Revealed Semantic Nuances That Are Not Usually Found In Other Treatments On This TopicThis Volume Provides ADetailed Look At The Semantics Of The Evidential System Of One Quechua Language With Implications For OthersParallels Are Noted With Evidential Systems Of Unrelated LanguagesThe Author Analyzes The Wanka Quechua Evidential System Using ACognitive View Of Grammar And Applies This Approach To Issues Of Semantics And Category Structure.
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