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Title: | Assertion, presumption and presupposition : an account of the erstwhile nominalizer YUM in Khalkha Mongolian | Authors: | Brosig, B Yap, FH Ahrens, K |
Issue Date: | Dec-2019 | Source: | Studies in language, Dec. 2019, v. 43, no. 4, p. 896-940 | Abstract: | In this paper, we analyze the clitic YUM (< ‘thing’) in Khalkha Mongolian which, in different syntactic contexts, reinforces assertiveness or expresses different shades of presumption or presupposition. The former holds for declaratives where the presence of YUM conveys the speaker’s strong subjective commitment. In question clauses, YUM is used to indicate the speaker’s subjective and often strong guess, sometimes to the point that the speaker presupposes that the proposition actually obtains. In subordinate clauses, YUM may fulfill the same function or serve as a structurally necessary nominalizer for adjectival predicates without introducing any semantic opposition. In declaratives marked as immediately perceived, YUM conveys inference via assumptive reasoning. We thus analyze YUM as a marker of subjective speaker conviction that within the Khalkha Mongolian declarative system is opposed to both simple factuality and overt evidential marking. | Keywords: | Assertion Evidentiality Inference Presumption Presupposition |
Publisher: | John Benjamins | Journal: | Studies in language | ISSN: | 0378-4177 | EISSN: | 1569-9978 | DOI: | 10.1075/sl.18050.bro | Rights: | © John Benjamins Publishing Company This is the author accepted manuscript of the following article: Brosig, B., Yap, F. H., & Ahrens, K. (2019). Assertion, presumption and presupposition: An account of the erstwhile nominalizer YUM in Khalkha Mongolian. Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language”, 43(4), 896-940., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.18050.bro |
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