none 10.1075/tsl.118.09flo John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 97816918 3028526 1421459 202412101031000042 10.1075 2024-12-10T04:59:13Z 2018-04-13T05:08:38Z 7 0167-7373 10.1075/tsl https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl Simeon Floyd https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9739-2914 Elisabeth Norcliffe Lila San Roque Egophoricity refers to the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement of a conscious self in a represented event or situation. Most typically, a marker that is egophoric is found with first person subjects in declarative sentences and with second person subjects in interrogative sentences. This person sensitivity reflects the fact that speakers generally know most about their own affairs, while in questions this epistemic authority typically shifts to the addressee. First described for Tibeto-Burman languages, egophoric-like patterns have now been documented in a number of other regions around the world, including languages of Western China, the Andean region of South America, the Caucasus, Papua New Guinea, and elsewhere. This book is a first attempt to place detailed descriptions of this understudied grammatical category side by side and to add to the cross-linguistic picture of how ideas of self and other are encoded and projected in language. The diverse but conceptually related egophoric phenomena described in its chapters provide fascinating case studies for how structural patterns in morphosyntax are forged under intersubjective, interactional pressures as we link elements of our speech to our speech situation. 118 4 25 2018 4 16 2018 9789027206992 9789027265548 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/tsl.118 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027265548 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/tsl.118/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027265548.pdf Simeon Floyd Universidad San Francisco de Quito/ Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9739-2914 Abstract The Cha’palaa language of Ecuador (Barbacoan) features verbal morphology for marking knowledge-based categories that, in usage, show a variant of the cross-linguistically recurrent pattern of ‘egophoric distribution': specific forms associate with speakers in contrast to others in statements and with addressees in contrast to others in questions. These are not person markers, but rather are used by speakers to portray their involvement in states of affairs as active, agentive participants ( ego) versus other types of involvement ( non-ego) . They interact with person and argument structure, but through pragmatic ‘person sensitivities’ rather than through grammatical agreement. Not only does this pattern appear in verbal morphology, it also can be observed in alternations of predicate construction types and case alignment, helping to show how egophoric marking is a pervasive element of Cha'palaa's linguistic system. This chapter gives a first account of egophoricity in Cha’palaa, beginning with a discussion of person sensitivity, egophoric distribution, and issues of flexibility of marking with respect to degree of volition or control. It then focuses on a set of intransitive experiencer (or ‘endopathic') predicates that refer to internal states which mark egophoric values for the undergoer role, not the actor role, showing ‘quirky’ accusative marking instead of nominative case. It concludes with a summary of how egophoricity in Cha'palaa interacts with issues of argument structure in comparison to a language with person agreement, here represented by examples from Cha’palaa’s neighbor Ecuadorian Highland Quechua. 4 25 2018 4 16 2018 269 304 10.1075/tsl.118.09flo https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.118.09flo https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/tsl.118.09flo/html Evidentiality Aikhenvald 2004 10.1093/oso/9780199263882.001.0001 10.1515/lity-2012-0017 10.1075/tsl.46 Intercultural Communication Studies Berendt 20 1 65 2011 The ‘heart’ of things: A conceptual metaphoric analysis of heart and related body parts in Thai, Japanese and English Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area Bickel 23 2 1 2000 10.32655/LTBA.23.2.01 Introduction: Person and evidence in Himalayan languages Chomolangma, Demawend und Kasbek: Festschrift für Roland Bielmeier zu seinem 65. 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