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Name: The Selkup verb grammeme of «indirect visual evidentiality»: an exception or a typological regularity?

Authors: Il’yina L’udmila Alekseevna

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: The paper studies the semantic structure of the Selkup verb grammeme with the basic meaning of «indirect visual evidentiality / perception / of the situation» and substantiates its typological regularity in the languages possessing the system of sensory evidential grammemes: visual and non-visual ones.

Keywords: selkup language, sensory evidentials, opposition of visual and non-visual gram-memes, interliguistic similarities, diachronic typology

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