Peggy Speas of the University of Massachusetts Amherst will present a colloquium.
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Time and Evidence in Matses and in General
Fleck (2007) characterizes the Panoan language Matses as having “one of the most intricate evidential systems ever described.” In this talk\, I will compar e this intricate system with the rather bare-bones evidential systems of la nguages like Korean and Bulgarian. Matses has at least nine distinct eviden tial morphemes\, while Korean has just two. Although Fleck characterizes th e Matses system as "typologically unique\," I will argue that it actually r esembles the Korean and Bulgarian systems to a surprising extent. Recent an alyses of evidentials in Korean and Bulgarian (among others) have proposed that the interpretation of evidentials crucially depends on the time at whi ch the speaker detected the evidence. These analyses use this evidential ti me as a type of Reference Time (aka Topic Time) in a Reichenbach-style anal ysis. I will argue that applying such an analysis to Matses yields a very s imple and elegant system\, where the evidential system does not differ sign ificantly from that of Korean.
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