Speaker Attitude and Demonstrative Choice in Ncane (Beboid)
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2018-12
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pages 25-41
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Ncane is an underdocumented Bantoid language, which offers speakers multiple choices for
referring to aforementioned participants. Anaphoric reference is usually made through a
noun and an accompanying anaphoric demonstrative. Two anaphoric demonstratives are
observed in the language and a speaker’s choice of demonstrative often reflects the
speaker’s attitude toward the participant. This article presents examples illustrating the
expression of various kinds of speaker judgments of participants through the use of
anaphoric demonstratives. Accounting for such expression of attitude appears to be lacking
in proposed demonstrative typologies like that of Diessel (1999). Therefore, the article
concludes with a suggestion for expanding typological categories to address such subjective
encoding.
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Studies in African Linguistics, 47 (1&2)
Entry Number:
85216