Bettina Zeisler
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bettina Zeisler is involved.
Articles
2018 Chapter 9. Evidence for the development of ‘evidentiality’ as a grammatical category in the Tibetic languages Evidence for Evidentiality, Foolen, Ad, Helen de Hoop and Gijs Mulder (eds.), pp. 227–256 | Chapter
The coding of evidentiality and/or the speaker’s attitude grammaticalized in most Modern Tibetic languages, whereas Classical Tibetan lacks a fully developed evidential system. The source for marking sensory perception is the hedging use of the verb ḥdug. Its lexical meaning of limited stay was… read more
2017 Don’t believe in a paradigm that you haven’t manipulated yourself!: Evidentiality, speaker attitude, and admirativity in Ladakhi The Linguistic Expression of Mirativity, Celle, Agnès and Anastasios Tsangalidis (eds.), pp. 515–539 | Article
A speaker may conceptualise a situation from three different modal ‘perspectives’: epistemic, evidential, and attitudinal. Languages differ in which of these concepts they perspectivise and how a grammaticalised concept may be extended to the other two. ‘Lesser-known’ languages tend to be… read more
2009 Reducing phonological complexity and grammatical opaqueness: Old Tibetan as a lingua franca and the development of the modern Tibetan varieties Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 75–95 | Article
Old Tibetan shows extraordinary complexity in its syllable structure as well as highly complex or rather opaque verb morphology. The syllable structure (CCC)CV(CC) has broken down completely in the modern Central Tibetan dialects to CV(C), while the opaque alternations of prefixes, consonants and… read more