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[Typological Studies in Language 118] 2018
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Chapter 1
Egophoricity

An introduction

 | Radboud University | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
 | Universidad San Francisco de Quito | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
 | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Published online: 25 April 2018
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1If you are me, who am I?
    • 1.2Terminology
    • 1.3Core characteristics of egophoric marking
  • 2.Variation in morphosyntactic expression
    • 2.1Formal expression
    • 2.2Interaction with other categories
      • Volition
      • Tense and aspect
      • Number and animacy
      • Other relevant categories
  • 3.Variation in person sensitivity and shiftability
    • 3.1Argument types and semantic roles
    • 3.2Variation in default distribution
    • 3.3Flexibility and extended meanings
      • Expressing intentionality
      • Certainty, assertiveness, and factuality
      • Peripheral involvement
      • How to be mean with egophoric markers: Further pragmatic and rhetorical effects
    • 3.4Shiftability
  • 4.Areas and families
    • 4.1Tibeto-Burman
    • 4.2Western China
    • 4.3Caucasus
    • 4.4South America
    • 4.5New Guinea
    • 4.6Elsewhere
  • 5.The diachrony of egophoricity
    • 5.1Lexical sources
    • 5.2Copulas/auxiliaries
    • 5.3Tense/aspect
    • 5.4Nominalisers
    • 5.5Non-mirative/mirative contrasts
    • 5.6Unmarked/marked evidential contrasts
    • 5.7Pronouns and agreement markers
    • 5.8Articles
  • 6.Approaches to egophoricity
    • 6.1Person reference
    • 6.2Evidentiality
    • 6.3Mirativity
    • 6.4Logophoricity
  • 7.Closing remarks: A broader view of egophoricity
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
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