The indirect evidential marker in interrogatives in Udmurt

Rebeka Kubitsch
Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics HAS / University of Szeged

Abstract. The paper discusses the indirect evidential marker in interrogatives in Udmurt (Uralic, Permic) from a typological point of view. Indirect evidentials are possible in interrogative structures in Udmurt without formal restrictions and they mark the speaker’s perspective. Their interpretation is in accordance with their use in declaratives: they mark indirect evidence and mirativity. Indirect evidentials tend to signal the speaker’s mental (and emotional) state in such cases interrogative structures can be interpreted as non-canonical questions.

Keywords: Udmurt language, indirect evidentiality, interrogatives, questions, mirativity

For citation: Kubitsch R. The indirect evidential marker in interrogatives in Udmurt. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2021. Vol. 4, iss. 2. Pp. 62–80.