http://hdl.handle.net/10900/78334 Tue, 12 May 2026 10:14:38 GMT 2026-05-12T10:14:38Z https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de:443/xmlui/bitstream/id/89436a65-641f-4ac0-a698-d692b8f8ffe5/ http://hdl.handle.net/10900/78334 http://hdl.handle.net/10900/83161 Proceedings of TripleA 4 Bogal-Allbritten, Elizabeth; Coppock, Elizabeth The TripleA workshop series was founded in 2013 by researchers from Tübingen and Potsdam. TripleA aims at providing a forum for semanticists doing fieldwork on understudied languages. Its focus is on languages from Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, complementing the SULA conference with its focus on languages of the Americas. TripleA 4 took place from June 9-11, 2017 at the University of Gothenburg. Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10900/83161 2018-07-16T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10900/83155 How do Degrees Enter the Grammar? Language Change in Samoan from [-DSP] to [+DSP] Hohaus, Vera The paper presents the result of a diachronic corpus study on Samoan, tracing a recent change in the setting of the Degree Semantics Parameter (Beck et al. 2009). We suggest that an earlier stage, Samoan had a negative setting of said parameter. Appropriation of another scalar concept then paved the way for the introduction of degrees into the grammar. Lexical and syntactic re-analysis of the directional particle [atu] (‘forth, away’) result in a new parameter setting. Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10900/83155 2018-07-16T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10900/83154 Egophoric Attitudes and Questions in Kathmandu Newar Wechsler, Stephen; Hargreaves, David Kathmandu Newar (Sino-Tibetan) has an egophoric verb marking system: an egophoric (or conjunct) verb form co-occurs with first person in declaratives and second person in inter- rogatives. Egophoric marking is restricted to predicates of intentional action and also interacts with evidential markers. This paper examines the distribution of egophoric marking in reports of speech and attitudes, extending to this domain the analysis of egophoric marking as indicating self-ascription by the epistemic authority for the utterance. This distribution reveals that egophoric marking of a clause further introduces an implication that the epistemic authority believes the proposition denoted by the clause. Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10900/83154 2018-07-16T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10900/83153 Probing the Ignorance of Epistemic Indefinites: A (Non)-Familiarity Constraint Balusu, Rahul Epistemic Indefinites (EI), with an added ‘ignorance’ component not seen with ordinary indefinites, are licensed in broadly two contexts. In one, there is ignorance of the witness of the existential claim among a plurality of referents in the domain. In the other, the witness of the existential claim can be identified, but there is ignorance about certain aspects of this witness. The first context is analysed as domain widening of some sort (Alonso-Ovalle and Menendez-Benito 2003, et seq). The second context is analysed as domain shifting (Aloni & Port 2010), with two identification methods at play, one required for knowledge (the ignorance component) and one used for specifying of the EI. Available identification schemes are naming, description, & ostension. We focus on the second context, and show that the Telugu EI [eed-oo]/[evar-oo] (which-DISJ/who-DISJ) ‘some-thing/body’ can be used even when the speaker has access to all 3 methods of identification, which should not be possible going by the domain shifting account. We propose a solution along the lines that if the speaker has recognized the person, [evar-oo]/[eed-oo] cannot be used. Similar to the familiarity theory of definiteness with discourse referents (Karttunen 1976) and ‘file cards’ (Heim 1983), we formalise this notion using mental referents and mental files (Recanati 2013, 2016). untranslated Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10900/83153 2018-07-16T00:00:00Z