DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Evidentiality and Meaning in Cusco Quechua

博士论文研究：库斯科盖丘亚语的证据性和意义

• 批准号: 9980223
• 负责人: David Beaver
• 金额: $ 1.46万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-12-15 至 2001-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9980223&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DOCTORAL; DISSERTATION; RESEARCH; Evidentiality; Meaning

On the basis of fieldwork with native Quechua speakers in Cuzco, Peru,we will construct a corpus of data concerning evidentiality and itsinteractions with other phenomena, and then frame the results within aformal semantic theory. We will investigate (i) how evidentials inQuechua are interpreted, (ii) how evidential markers interact withother semantic categories such as tense markers, and (iii) how thevarious functions of evidential markers relate to each other.The study is among the first in Quechua semantics. It contributes toresearch on the cross-linguistic manifestation of epistemic and othersemantic concepts, and thus to the discovery of universal propertiesof language. It is also a contribution to the development of semantictheory, evidentiality having been largely neglected by formalsemanticists.The results will be of interest to semanticists, Quechuaanthropologists, philosophers of language, and to linguists andcognitive scientists more generally.

在对秘鲁库斯科的克丘亚语母语者进行实地考察的基础上，我们将构建一个关于据素及其与其他现象的相互作用的数据语料库，然后将结果框架在一个形式语义理论中。我们将探讨（i）克丘亚语中的证据标记如何被解释，（ii）证据标记如何与其他语义范畴如时态标记相互作用，以及（iii）证据标记的各种功能如何相互关联。它有助于研究认知概念和其他语义概念的跨语言表现，从而发现语言的普遍属性。 这也是对语义理论发展的一个贡献，证据在很大程度上被形式语义学家所忽视。其结果将引起语义学家、盖丘亚人类学家、语言哲学家以及更广泛的语言学家和认知科学家的兴趣。