Evidenciais e ponto de vista em uma narrativa wa’ikhana (tukano oriental)

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article presents an analysis of the role of the evidentials in a Wa’ikhana oral narrative, using a Cognitivist approach. Evidentiality is a grammatical category that indicates source of information and that is grammaticalized and obligatory in Eastern Tukanoan languages. The results showed that in Wa’ikhana, particularly, different uses of evidential categories in a narrative indicated different viewpoint marking, related to the conceptualizers involved in the narrative event – the speaker/narrator, the virtual observer and the characters.

KEYWORDS: Evidentiality. Viewpoint. Eastern Tukanoan languages. Wa’ikhana. Narrative. Mental Spaces. Cognitive Linguistics.