Nicolas Tournadre
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicolas Tournadre is involved.
2025 A preliminary study of the evidential-epistemic system of Dolpo, a Tibetic language of Nepal Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 48:2, pp. 193–235 | Article
The goal of this article is to describe the evidential-epistemic (E-E) system of Dolpo, a Tibetic language of Nepal. The evidential and epistemic paradigms are constructed with equative, existential, and auxiliary verbs. The first two, equative and existential verbs, are also used as linking… read more
2021 Chapter 7. The semantics of the verb give in Tibetan: The development of the transfer construction and the honorific domain Give Constructions across Languages, Bouveret, Myriam (ed.), pp. 175–193 | Chapter
This paper aims to examine the behaviour of the equivalents of ‘give’ in Lhasa Tibetan in order to confirm, qualify or invalidate the universal tendencies that previous cross-linguistic research has unveiled (Newman 1996, Ed., 1997). We will first explore the semantic relations between the… read more
2016 The future tenses in the Tibetic languages: Diachronic and dialectal perspectives Aspectuality and Temporality: Descriptive and theoretical issues, Guentchéva, Zlatka (ed.), pp. 625–642 | Article
In this paper, I will present the various types of futures in the Tibetic languages and their relationship to other tenses, aspects and modalities. Tibetic languages constitute a compact family of languages derived from Old Tibetan spoken in six countries (China, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and… read more
2014 Towards a new approach to evidentiality: Issues and directions for research Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 37:2, pp. 240–263 | Article
Evidentiality is often defined as the grammatical means of expressing information source. This paper argues for a broader definition of evidentials, as close work documenting languages has shown that simply saying evidentials mark source of information does not capture all of the actual uses of… read more