DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Evidentiality and Meaning in Cusco Quechua

在对秘鲁库斯科当地的克丘亚语使用者进行实地调查的基础上，我们将构建一个关于证据性及其与其他现象相互作用的数据语料库，然后将结果框架在形式化语义理论中。我们将研究(i)如何解释证据质询，（ii）证据标记如何与其他语义类别（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。这项研究是克丘亚语义学的首批研究之一。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。这也是对语义学发展的贡献，证据性在很大程度上被形式语义学家所忽视。语义学家、克丘瓦人类学家、语言哲学家，以及语言学家和认知科学家都会对这些结果感兴趣。

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.