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A Description And Analysis Of Four Metarepresentation Markers Of Indus Kohistani, Beate Lubberger
A Description And Analysis Of Four Metarepresentation Markers Of Indus Kohistani, Beate Lubberger
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This thesis describes and analyzes four markers of Indus Kohistani, a language spoken in Northern Pakistan that has received little attention so far. The markers discussed are lee, a "hearsay" evidential that does however not mark every reported speech, karee, a grammaticalized quotative and complementizer that is also found in purpose and reason clauses, in naming and in similarity constructions, če, a complementizer borrowed from Pashto, and loo, a marker that indicates utterances a speaker wishes her audience to convey to a third party.
Relevance Theory, an inferential theory of communication, distinguishes between utterances that are …