Adam TALLMAN: "Clause-typing and its relationship to modality and evidentiality in Chácobo (Pano)"
$This talk provides a description of clause-typing and its relationship to evidential and modal categories in Chácobo, a southern Panoan language of the northern Bolivian Amazon. The Chácobo clause contains a syntactic position dedicated to encoding clause-type (declarative, interrogative, imperative) and and clause-rank (main, subordinate). I identify 13 mutually exclusive morphemes that can be analyzed as encoding clause-type in addition to various TAME specifications. 4 of these morphemes encode modal or evidential categories; the mirative imperative (=pá), the conjectural declarative (=imaní), the direct evidential or assertive declarative (=rá), and the reportative declarative (=ikiá). I provide a description of the morphosyntax and semantics of these morphemes in Chácobo, in light of recent typological studies which argue that the assertive and reportative are clause-types in some languages rather than modal or evidential elaborations (cf. Bruil 2014, 2015). Finally, I conclude by considering avenues for future research.