Egophoricity / edited by Simeon Floyd, Elisabeth Norcliffe, Lila San Roque.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2018).

Intro; Egophoricity; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; 1. Egophoricity; 1. Introduction; 1.1 If you are me, who am I?; 1.2 Terminology; 1.3 Core characteristics of egophoric marking; 2. Variation in morphosyntactic expression; 2.1 Formal expression; 2.2 Interaction with other categories; Volition; Tense and aspect; Number and animacy; Other relevant categories; 3. Variation in person sensitivity and shiftability; 3.1 Argument types and semantic roles; 3.2 Variation in default distribution; 3.3 Flexibility and extended meanings; Expressing intentionality.

Certainty, assertiveness, and factualityPeripheral involvement; How to be mean with egophoric markers: Further pragmatic and rhetorical effects; 3.4 Shiftability; 4. Areas and families; 4.1 Tibeto-Burman; 4.2 Western China; 4.3 Caucasus; 4.4 South America; 4.5 New Guinea; 4.6 Elsewhere; 5. The diachrony of egophoricity; 5.1 Lexical sources; 5.2 Copulas/auxiliaries; 5.3 Tense/aspect; 5.4 Nominalisers; 5.5 Non-mirative/mirative contrasts; 5.6 Unmarked/marked evidential contrasts; 5.7 Pronouns and agreement markers; 5.8 Articles; 6. Approaches to egophoricity; 6.1 Person reference.

6.2 Evidentiality6.3 Mirativity; 6.4 Logophoricity; 7. Closing remarks: A broader view of egophoricity; Acknowledgements; References; 2. "Am I blue?"; 1. Introduction; 2. Finite verbal morphology; 3. Previous accounts; 4. Temperature predicates; 5. Aspectual auxiliary 'dhun-' 'finish'; 5.1 The egophoric patterning of auxiliary '-dhun'; 5.2 The causative morpheme '-k(al)-'; 5.3 Auxiliary '-dhun' 'finish' in two late classical Newar texts; 5.4 Assessing the late classical evidence; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 3. Mirativity and egophoricity in Kurtöp; 1. Introduction; 2. Kurtöp.

2.1 Clauses with copulas2.2 Clauses without copulas; 2.3 Verbal enclitics; 3. Mirativity and egophoricity; 4. Mirativity in Kurtöp; 4.1 Mirativity as a paradigm; 4.2 Mirativity in use; 5. Egophoricity in Kurtöp; 5.1 '-shang'; 5.2 '-pala'; 6. Summary; References; 4. Interactions of speaker knowledge and volitionality in Sherpa; 1. Introduction; 2. The Sherpa system; 2.1 The Sherpa language & data collection; 2.2 Typological properties; 2.3 Evidentiality in Sherpa; 3. Earlier analyses of the Sherpa verbal system; 4. Functions of utterance-final verbal forms in Sherpa.

4.1 Functions of the evidential 'ĩ'4.2 Functions of 'suŋ'; 4.3 Functions of 'nok'; 4.4 Functions of 'wi'; 4.5 'Suŋ' and 'ĩ' in reported speech and interrogatives; 5. A closer look at volitionality; 6. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References; 5. Egophoricity and differential access to knowledge in Yongning Na (Mosuo); 1. Introduction; 2. Volitional verbs; 3. Internal state verbs; 4. Observable state verbs; 5. Interrogatives; 6. Discussion; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 6. Egophoricity in Wutun; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The Wutun language and the Amdo Sprachbund

Egophoricity is the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement. Markers in egophoric systems are sensitive to epistemic authority; since speakers generally know most about their own affairs, egophoric marking typically associates with first person statements. However, in questions epistemic authority shifts to the addressee, and egophoric markers associate with second person. This person sensitive distribution is found with subtle variations in unrelated languages around the globe. An under-studied and controversial category, egophoricity has been previously described under a wide range of labels linked to specific regional traditions. This is the first volume to consolidate these traditions into a global typology, including contributions from regions as diverse as the Himalayas, Western China, Highlands New Guinea, and the Andes. The volume further reveals how egophoric marking relates to conceptions of 'self' and 'other', giving special insights into notions of intentionality and the opacity of other minds across languages and cultures.

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