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Review published In: Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
Vol. 40:2 (2017) ► pp.285–303

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Review of Lauren Gawne & Nathan W. Hill. (eds). 2016. Evidential systems of Tibetan languages

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Published online: 5 April 2018
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Article outline
  • 1.Tibetan evidentiality systems and their relevance for the typology of evidentiality
  • 2.General introduction
  • 3.Papers on typology and history
  • 4.Lhasa and Diasporic Tibetan
  • 5.Papers on other Tibetan languages
  • 6.Remarks on the terms “conjunct/disjunct” and “egophoricity”
  • 7.Summary
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
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