1 Genesis of an evidential category: revelation from the ‘noisy stream’ Kristine Stenzel Federal University of Rio de Janeiro / [email protected] Objectives: Quick overview of ET evidential systems, particulars of Kotiria system Focus on category of NON-VISUAL sensory evidence in Kotiria • situate the NON-VISUAL category as a contrasting member of the five-category evidential system • demonstrate its structural properties and use • present new hypothesis of its origin THE VAUPÉS REGION AND LOCATION OF KOTIRIA POPULATION 1. Introduction The evidential systems of Eastern Tukanoan languages • obligatory; inflectional (number/ person/ tense-aspect /animacy) • 4-5 categories in realis statements, 2-3 in interrogatives i. VISUAL, indicates direct sensory evidence, w/extension to statements of general fact ii. NON-VISUAL, indicates other-than-visual or internal sensory evidence iii. INFERENCE, expresses conclusions based on directly observed, but after-the-fact, evidence iv. ASSUMED, expresses generally known/shared information, reasoned supposition. v. HEARSAY, indicates secondhand information; may code temporal/aspectual distinctions. 1 2 Table 1. Tuyuca Evidentials (Barnes 1984:258) VISUAL NONVISUAL APPARENT PAST Other 3msg 3fsg 3pl -wɨ -wi -wo -wa -tɨ -ti -to -ta (INFERENCE) -yu -yi -yo -ya Present Other (*2)/3msg (*2)/3fsg (*2)/3pl -a -i -yo -ya -ga -gi -go -ga *-hĩi *-hĩo *-hĩra INFORMED (HEARSAY) -yiro -yigɨ -yigo -yira ASSUMED - -ku -ki -ko -kua -hĩyu -hĩyi -hĩyo -hĩya • 3rd/non-3rd paradigm • inflectional (person, number, gender, tense) 2. The Kotiria (Wanano) system TABLE 2. KOTIRIA EVIDENTIALS (WALTZ & WALTZ 1997; 2000) VISUAL PAST Present NON-VISUAL INDICATED (INFERENCE) INFORMED (HEARSAY) 1st person 2nd/3rd person -(ʔ)i -(ʔ)re -ʔa -ri hi-re -yuʔti 1st person 2nd/3rd person -ha -ra -ka -ri hi-ra -yuʔka • 1st/non-1st paradigm with neutralization of gender and number distinctions • analytic construction for inference TABLE 3. KOTIRIA EVIDENTIALS (Stenzel 2008) NON FIRSTHAND FIRSTHAND EXTERNAL DIRECT NON-VISUAL VISUAL 1ST QUOT. DIFF. -yu’ka -yu’ti HEARSAY PERF -i INTERNAL INDIRECT 2nd/3rd IMPERF PERF IMPERF -ha -re (VISUAL) -ra koa-taNON-VISUAL -ri hiINFERENCE PERF IMPERF -a -ka ASSERTION • semantic features distinguishing each category • aspectual rather than tense distinctions for VISUAL and ASSERTION categories, referential distinctions for HEARSAY • fifth category: NON-VISUAL (different from Waltz & Waltz NON-VISUAL and not directly parallel to other ET NON-VISUALS) 2 3 Kotiria examples with VISUAL, INFERENCE, HEARSAY and ASSERTION evidential a) VISUAL (speaker witnessed or experienced) (1) õpʉ hira yʉ pho’na ~ó-pʉ́ 1 hí-ra yʉ=~pho’dá DEIC.PROX-LOC COP-VIS.IMPERF.2/3 1SG.POSS=children ‘Here he (a missing dog) is, my sons.’ (2) yʉ’ʉse’e bu’ewa’a yoatii yʉ’ʉ́-se’e bu’é-wa’a yoá-ati-i 1SG-CONTR study/learn-go do/make-IMPERF-VIS.PERF.1 ‘(But) I was always going away to study.’ (extension to statements of general fact) (3) phũria khʉariro hira tiro ~phurí-a khʉá-ri-ro hí-ra tí-ró poison-PL hold/have-NOM-SG COP-VIS.IMPERF.2/3 ANPH-SG ‘It (a viper) is extremely poisonous.’ b) INFERENCE (conclusions based on directly observed ‘after-the-fact’ evidence) (4) yoatapʉ wihatu’sʉri hira yóá=ta-pʉ wihá-tu’sʉ-ri hí-ra be.far=REF-LOC MOV.outward-finish-NOM(INFER) COP-VIS.IMPERF.2/3 ‘They’ve just escaped.’ (5) yʉ mahkʉre wãharokari hire yʉ=~bak-ʉ́-ré ~wahá-roka-ri hí-re 1SG.POSS=child-MASC-OBJ kill-DIST-NOM(INFER) COP-VIS.PERF.2/3 ‘My son’s been killed.’ c) ASSERTION (speaker’s own internal sensations) (6) phũriyʉ’dʉaka ~phurí-yʉ’dʉ-a-ka hurt-INTENS-AFFEC-ASSERT.IMPERF ‘It hurts a lot.’ (speaker’s reasoned suppositions about others) (7) yʉ’ʉre a’riro chʉduaro nika yʉ’ʉ́-ré a’rí-ró chʉ́-dua-ro ~dí-ka 1SG-OBJ DEM.PROX-SG eat-DESID-(3)SG be.PROG-ASSERT.IMPERF ‘This thing (the curupira) wants (lit., ‘is wanting’) to eat me.’ 1 In the examples ‘~’ indicates an inherently nasal morpheme, the acute accent ´ indicates High tone; Low tone is unmarked. 3 4 (culturally shared or mythical knowledge) (8) mia wa’i dainakãre chʉka tiro ~bí-a wa’í dá-~ídá-~ká-ré chʉ́-ka ti-ro sardine-PL fish be.small-NOM.PL-DIM-OBJ eat-ASSERT.IMPERF ANPH-SG ‘It (a bass) eats sardines (and) small fish.’ phanopʉre hiatiga mahsayahkaina. ~phadó-pʉ-re hí-ati-a ~basá-yáká-~ídá do/be.before-LOC-OBJ COP-IMPERF-ASSERT.PERF people-steal-NOM.PL ‘In the olden days there were people-stealers.’ (9) d) HEARSAY (10) a. tiro wʉ’ʉpʉ wa’ayu’ka tí-ró wʉ’ʉ́-pʉ́ wa’á-yu’ka ANPH-SG house-LOC go-HSAY.QUOT (Someone specific told me that) ‘He went home.’ b. tiro wʉ’ʉpʉ wa’ayu’ti tí-ró wʉ’ʉ́-pʉ́ wa’á-yu’ti ANPH-SG house-LOC go-HSAY.DIFF (They say that) ‘He went home.’ 3. The Kotiria NON-VISUAL 3.1 Structure • analytic: serialization of Vroots koa and ta • as with all Kotiria constructions that involve verbal complements, the preceding verb is nominalized by a noun class suffix cross-referenced to the Subject: 3PL in (11); 3SG in (12)-(13) • final suffix either from VISUAL (11)-(12) or ASSERTION (13) categories (11) numia ña’aina taa nia koatara ~dubí-a ~ya’á-~ida tá-á ~dí-a koá-ta-ra woman-PL catch-NOM.PL come-(3)PL be.PROG-(3)PL NONVIS-come-VIS.IMPERF.2/3 ‘Women-kidnappers are coming.’ (the speaker hears them approaching) (12) ã yoa tu’sʉ, pairore nʉnʉ wãharo, toi yairose’e tirore nʉnʉti ña’aro koatare ~a=yoá tu’sʉ́ pá-iro-re ~dʉdʉ́ ~wahá-ro to-i yaí-ró-sé’é so=do finish ALT-NOM.SG-OBJ follow/chase kill-(3)SG REM-LOC jaguar-SG-CONTR tí-ró-ré ~dʉdʉ́-ati ~ya’á-ro koá-ta-re ANPH-SG-OBJ follow/chase-IMPERF catch-(3)SG NONVIS-come-VIS.PERF.2/3 ‘Afterwards, while (our dog was) chasing after another animal out there, a jaguar caught him.’ 4 5 (13) te õba’aro’i wi’itarokaro koataa. té ~ó-bá’á-ró-í wi’í-tá-róká-ró all.the.way DEIC.PROX-be.after-LOC arrive-come-DIST-(3)SG ‘(The man heard) him (the curupira) approaching from afar.’ koá-ta-a NONVIS-come-ASSERT.PERF 3.2 Basic semantics • most frequently codes auditory information • indication of extension to other non-visual sensory information (14) borasʉ̃ka’a wa’aro koataa borá-~sʉ-ka’a wa’á-ro koá-ta-a fall-arrive-do.moving go-(3)SG NONVIS-come-ASSERT.PERF ‘(The curupira) fell right down.’ (the speaker hears and additionally feels the vibration from the great creature’s fall) 3.3 Development of Kotiria NON-VISUAL Crosslinguistic ET comparison • Malone (1988) and (Aikhenvald 2002:127): grammaticalization of V compounds with roots ‘seem’ ‘be perceived’ as likely source of ET NON-VISUAL synthetic evidentials • Malone (1988): Some ET Ls (TUY, SIR, YUR) have specific and highly-marked ‘auditory evidence’ constructions with forms i. STEM-NONVIS(SF)-VIS(SF) or ii. STEM-GENDER/NUMBER AUX-NONVIS(SF) AUX= ti(i)/iri ‘do’ • Close semantic relationship of NON-VISUAL and ASSUMED categories in ET Ls o Ls with no NON-VISUAL use ASSUMED category o Ls with both often use NON-VISUAL for internal sensations of speaker and ASSUMED for internal sensations of others • No overlap in Kotiria: NON-VISUAL Semantics more restricted; e.g., not used for internal sensations of speaker (ASSERTION category used for this) 3.3.1 First analysis (Stenzel 2004, 2008): koá ‘taste’ Æ ‘perceive’ (specific internal sensation) (general non-visual sensory information) (15) to di’i noaro koaka to=di’í ~dóá-ró koá-ka 3SG.POSS=meat be.good-SG taste-ASSERT.IMPERF ‘Its (a cow’s) meat tastes good.’ koa then serialized with ta ‘come’ (cislocative direction of external source of non-visual sensory information) (11)-(14) 5 6 Use of NON-VISUAL construction contrasting with use of specific lexical perception verbs as main predicate with non-evidential reading. (17b) cf. (17c) (16) ~yʉ thʉ’o thʉ’o-thu koá ‘see, look; realize’ ‘hear, feel’ ‘smell; understand’ (lit., ‘feel-think’) ‘taste’ (17) a. to khĩ’ori ora karaka duripa, topʉ pihsutaa ñami kʉ̃ta karaka duripa. tó ~khi’ó-rí óra káráká dú-ri-pa tó-pʉ DEF be.arranged-NOM hour[B] rooster speak-NOM- CLS:time REM-LOC pisú-ta-a ~yabí ~kʉ́=ta káráká dú-ri-pa call-come-ASSERT.PERF night one=REF rooster speak-NOM-CLS:time ‘At the appointed cock-crowing hour, (from) that place came a call, at the first nighttime crowing hour.’ b. kʉ̃iro to mahkʉro bʉhkʉrokurero thʉ’oga. ~kʉ́-író to=~bak-ʉ́-ró one-NOM.SG 3SG.POSS=child-MASC-SG ‘One of his sons, the oldest, heard it.’ bʉk-ʉ́-ro-kure-ro elder-MASC-SG-COMP-SG c. mari phʉkʉ tatu’sʉro koataka. ~bari=phʉk-ʉ́ tá-tú’sʉ́-ró 1PL.INC.POSS=parent-MASC come-finish-(3)SG ‘“Our father’s just come (to the meeting place).”’ thʉ’ó-a hear-ASSERT.PERF koá-ta-ka NONVIS-come-ASSERT.IMPERF 3.3.2 Reformulated analysis (Stenzel forthcoming): two koa forms (1) hikoa ‘like’ Æ koa ‘taste (good)’ (18) i. ii. iii. (2) and koa ‘make noise / produce sound’(diachronic) Kotiria names for village of Carurú Cachoeira mõ ‘salt plant’ mõa phoa-ye ‘salt plant rapids’ koama phoaye koá-~ba phoá-yé make.noise-CLS:stream rapids-PL ‘noisy-stream rapids’ koa-ta ‘make.noise-come’ Æ auditory source Æ general NON-VISUAL evidence (recent extension) 6 7 3.3 Areal view: ‘make noise’ verbs as source of NON-VISUAL evidentials • typologically more common scenario (Anderson 1986, Aikhenvald 2004): perception verbs e.g. ‘hear’ ‘feel’ ‘perceive’ Æ NON-VISUAL evidentials In Vaupés: Tariana -hima ‘hear, feel’ Æ NON-VISUAL –mha Desano kari ‘hear, feel, seem’ Æ NON-VISUAL serialization (Miller 1999) • Less common scenario: ‘make noise’ Vs Æ NON-VISUAL markers In Vaupés: parallels in Nadahup (Makú) languages: Hup (Epps 2005) and Yuhup (Ospina Bozzi 2002) Summary/Conclusions: Kotiria evidential system shows a number of departures from general ET patterns: • Reorganization of person distinctions • Neutralization of gram. categories • Preference for analytic constructions (INFERENCE, NON-VISUAL): Retention or recent development? 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