Truth, person, and personal truth: Kuke copulas, a construction caught between descriptive systems

• Mark Donohue ^[1] ; Bhojraj Gautam ^[2]
  1. [1] Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages

     Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages

     Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] Tribhuvan University

     Tribhuvan University

     Nepal

     
• Localización: Studies in language: International Journal Sponsored by The Foundation "Foundations of Language", ISSN 0378-4177, Vol. 43, Nº 2, 2019, págs. 444-458
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1075/sl.17027.don
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• Resumen

  • In this paper we present data on the copula system of Kuke, a language of the lower Nubri valley, in northern Nepal. We present data showing that the system of copulas cannot easily be categorised in terms of the different descriptive categories that are frequently used in discussion of languages of the Himalayan region (evidentiality, egophoricity, conjunct/disjunct). Further, the different contrasts encoded in the morphologically simple copula system shows a range of semantics (loosely associated with first person interpretations) that has rarely been described as occurring in one system.