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This edited volume brings together work on the evidential systems of Tibetan languages. This includes diachronic research, synchronic description of systems in
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This study presents a comparative approach to a universal theory of TENSE, ASPECT and MOOD, combining the methods of comparative and historical linguistics, fie
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Statements are always under the threat of the potential counter-question How do you know? To pre-empt this question, language users often indicate what kind of
Give Constructions across Languages
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This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the concept
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Egophoricity refers to the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement of a conscious self in a represented event or situation. Most typically