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Distance temporelle, pertinence et conjecture en chácobo (pano) et araona (takana), Adam Tallman (Friedrich Schiller Universität - Jena)

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Séminaire Tallman

Cet exposé comparera le marquage de la distance temporelle, de la pertinence et de la conjecture dans deux langues amazoniennes de Bolivie (le chácobo et l’araona). La littérature linguistique sur la distance temporelle s’est attachée à élucider les catégories sémantiques à l’œuvre (« graded tense », « metric tense », « temporal remoteness »), la façon dont elles combinent des traits de l’aspect, du temps et des adverbes (augmentant l’éventail des catégories typologiques connues, Cable 2013 ; Mucha 2016 ; Tallman et Stout 2016, 2018 ; Tallman 2018), ainsi que les propriétés concernant le caractère affirmé ou présupposé de la distance temporelle et son type d’ancrage (topic vs. utterance time). Cependant, les aspects pragmatiques et plus culturels de la signification des marqueurs de distance temporelle ont été laissés de côté dans ces analyses, tels que la façon dont les notions internes de récence et de distance temporelles sont négociées dans le discours ou leurs asymétries quant à l’encodage d’une pertinence persistante. En outre, ces analyses ne fournissent aucune explication de l'association synchronique et diachronique entre les morphèmes conjecturaux et les marqueurs d'éloignement temporel (saillants en chácobo et en araona). Dans une tentative de combler cette lacune, cet exposé explorera la possibilité d'aborder ces catégories du point de vue de la notion d’indexicalité créative de Silverstein (1976).

Cliché: Session d'enregistrement chez les Araona, rivière Manuripi, Bolivie / © Adam Tallman.

 L'intervention sera réalisée en anglais.

 

Temporal distance, relevance, and conjecture in Chácobo (Pano) and Araona (Takana)

This talk will compare the marking of temporal distance, relevance and conjecture in two Amazonian languages of Bolivia (Chácobo and Araona). The linguistic literature on temporal distance has concentrated on its semantic categories ('graded tense', 'metric tense', 'temporal remoteness'), how they mix features from the aspect, tense and temporal domains (enlarging the known typological categories Cable 2013; Mucha 2016; Tallman & Stout 2016, 2018; Tallman 2018), as well as on properties related with whether they assert or presuppose temporal information and whether temporal distance is measured with respect to topic (or temporal reference) time or utterance time. Pragmatic and more culturally grounded aspects of the meaning of temporal distance markers have been left out of these analyses, how mind-internal notions of temporal recency and distance are negotiated in discourse and asymetries in the extent to which these morphemes encode lingering relevance. Furthermore, these analyses provide no explanation for the synchronic and diachronic association between conjectural morphemes and markers of temporal remoteness (salient in both Chácobo and Araona). In an attempt to fill this gap, this talk will explore the possibility of approaching these categories from the perspective of Silverstein's notion of creative indexicality (Silverstein 1976).

 References citées

Cable, S. (2013). Beyond the past, present, and future: towards the semantics of 'graded tense' in Gĩkũyũ. Natural Language Semantics, 21, 219-276.

Michael, L. D. (2008). Nanti evidential practice: Language, knowledge, and social action in an Amazonian society. PhD Thesis, University of Texas at Austin.

Mucha, A. (2015). Temporal Interpretation and Cross-Linguistic Variation: A formal semantic analysis of temporal and aspectual reference in Hausa Medumba. Potsdam: PhD thesis, University of Potsdam.

Silverstein, M. (1976). Shifters, Linguistic Categories and Cultural Description. In K. H. Basso, & H. A. Selby (Eds.), Meaning in Anthropology. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Tallman, A. J. (2018). A Grammar of Chácobo, a southern Pano language of the northern Bolivian Amazon. University of Texas at Austin, PhD Thesis.

Tallman, A. J., & Stout, T. (2016). The perfect in Chácobo in cross-linguistic perspective. In T. Bui, & R.-R. Ivan (Eds.), SULA 9: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas. University of California, Santa Cruz.

Tallman, A. J., & Stout, T. (2018). Tense and temporal remoteness in Chácobo (Pano). In M. Keough, N. Weber, A. Anghelescu, S. Chen, E. Guntly, K. Johnson, . . . O. Tkachman (Ed.), Proceedings of the Workshop on the Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas 21 (pp. 210-224). Montreal: University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 46.


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