Tenses, aspects, and categories of evidentiality and egocentricity in spoken Lhasa Tibetan  

作　　者：Jiang Di Yue Ming 

机构地区：[1]Humanities and Communications College, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234,China [2]Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100081, China [3]School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, China

出　　处：《宏观语言学》2007年第1期104-129,共26页Macrolinguistics

基　　金：This study is sponsored by the National Natural Science foundation of China (Number 60173024,60473135). We thank Professors Sun Tianxin, J. L. Randy, J. A. Matisoff and Gu Yang for theirconstructive comments.

摘　　要：This paper mainly discusses verbal aspects and their syntactic markers in Lhasa Tibetan. Since aspects in Tibetan always share markers with other important categories called evidentiality and egocentricity, the former of which assesses the evidence of speaker's statement and the latter denotes behavioral characteristics of a speaker'sego-centricity, this paper simultaneously describes all three types: aspect, evidentiality and egocentricity. There are nine types of verb aspects in Lhasa Tibetan, namely: Prospective, Imminent, Premediated, Realis, Durative, Resultative, Merely-past, Perfect, and Contextual aspects. There are four types of evidentialities, namely, Self-knowledge, Knowing-by-sight, Knowing-by-newly-found-information and Knowing-by-inference evidentialities. Categories of egocentricity demonstrate whether an action is towards the Self or the Other, whether the speaker gains or loses, and so on. Additionally, this essay also discusses the interactive relationship between syntactical verb aspects and personal pronouns, intentionality, modality, as well as temporal-spatial cognition.

关 键 词：LHASA DIALECT of Tibetan CATEGORIES of VERB aspect markers of VERB ASPECTS EVIDENTIALITY egocentricity 

分 类 号：G[文化科学]