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Evidentiality in Udmurt
Past Tense Morphology and Its Semantic and Pragmatic Functions
Series: - Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, Volume: 29
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Evidentiality in Udmurt presents the first in depth exploration of how this endangered Uralic language encodes information source, mirativity, and epistemic modality through its past tense morphology. Grounded in field data and typological comparison, the book offers a detailed portrait of the Udmurt evidential system and its contextualâpragmatic extensions. Udmurt emerges as a key case for understanding the dynamics of small evidential systems built around an evidentially neutral form and a marked counterpart. The findings contribute to typological research on the interaction of evidential, modal, and pragmatic categories in small evidential systems, many of which are found across the VolgaâKama region and Northern Eurasia.
Rebeka Kubitsch, Ph.D. (2023), is a researcher at the University of Szeged. She specializes in Uralic linguistics, with a particular focus on evidentiality and related semantic and pragmatic phenomena in the Udmurt language.
This study speaks to academic institutes, linguists, and postgraduate students in Uralic studies, typology, and semantics, as well as researchers investigating evidentiality, modality, and related pragmatic categories.