OLAC Record oai:hughandbecky.us:0001

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Title:		An unattested person alignment u̱t‑Maꞌin with possible logophoric function
Abstract:		This study examines the distribution of Reported Speaker and Reported Addressee pronouns in a corpus of u̱t‑Maꞌin narrative spoken texts to understand what motivates the shift in pronouns between 2SG and 3SG for Reported Addressees.
Access Rights:		Open Access
Bibliographic Citation:		Paterson, Rebecca Dow. 2021. An unattested person alignment u̱t‑Maꞌin with possible logophoric function. Presented in the panel on “Exploring the logophoric continuum” at the 4th Symposium on West African Languages (Sep 22-24). Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”
Contributor (researcher):		Rebecca Paterson
Contributor (speaker):		Rebecca Paterson
Description:		u̱t‑Maꞌin (Kainji, Benue-Congo) does not have dedicated logophoric pronouns. In fact, if you only analyzed some speech reports, you might dismiss u̱t‑Maꞌin as a categorically non-logophoric language (Culy, 1994). In many narratives, the reported speaker (RS) is referenced within the speech report by the 1SG pronoun, ɘ̄m, and the reported addressee (RA) by the 2SG pronoun, bɔ̄, just as in a non-speech-report. However, in one narrative text both 2SG and 3SG pronouns are used to reference the same RA, within a reported speech event. The RS is referenced by the 1SG pronoun ɘ̄m as we expect, but the RA is referenced by a 3SG form wá ‘C1.OBJ’. (There is ambiguity in translation when encountering these 3SG forms in a speech report.) This use of 1SG for RS and 3SG for RA within a speech report is unattested by Nikitina’s (2012: 256) typology of person alignment. This study examines the distribution of RS and RA pronouns in a corpus of u̱t‑Maꞌin narrative spoken texts in an effort to understand the extent of this unattested person alignment and what motivates the shift in pronouns between 2SG and 3SG for RAs.
Identifier (URI):		https://hughandbecky.us/Becky-CV/talk/2021-an-unattested-person-alignment-utmain-with-possible-logophoric-function/
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Subject:		general_linguistics
		morphology
		syntax
		Reported Speech
		Grammar
		u̱t‑MaꞌRor
		ut-Ma'in language
Subject (ISO639):		gel
Subject (OLAC):		general_linguistics
		morphology
		syntax
Type (DCMI):		Event
Type (OLAC):		language_description
OLAC Info
Archive:		Rebecca Paterson's Interactive Research Portfolio
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/hughandbecky.us
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:hughandbecky.us:0001
DateStamp:		2021-02-22
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Citation:		Rebecca Paterson (speaker); Rebecca Paterson (researcher). n.d. Rebecca Paterson's Interactive Research Portfolio.
Terms:		area_Africa area_Europe country_GB country_NG dcmi_Event iso639_eng iso639_gel olac_general_linguistics olac_language_description olac_morphology olac_syntax
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Country:		Nigeria
Area:		Africa