The study of evidentiality in Persian : A typological approach

Authors
A. Omidvari 1
A. Golfam 2
A. Golfam 2
1 Ph.D. student, Department of General Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate, Department of Linguistics, University of Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
speaker`s attitude toward her/his statement. Aikhenvald (2004) presented a model for evidential in about 500 languages around the world. She introduce 2 types of evidentiality. Grammatical evidentiality including obligatory affixes and clitics and ungrammatical evidentiality including optional syntactic and lexical strategies. Aikhenvald refers to direct and indirect evidentials from a semantic view point. This study show that there aren`t any grammatical evidentials in Persian and like the other Indo- European languages , Persian has linguistic items which fulfill evidential function in addition to their first roles in language. Some of evidential structures in Persian include impersonal passive forms, modal expressions , tense- aspect features, reports and quotations and sensory and perception verbs.

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Language Related Research
Volume 8, Issue 1
March and April 2017
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