Saraguro Kichwa Evidentiality #
@cite{aikhenvald-2004} @cite{martinez-vera-2026}
Saraguro Kichwa (ISO qvj) is a severely endangered Quechuan language
spoken in the Saraguro region of Loja Province, Ecuador
(@cite{martinez-vera-2026}).
The evidential paradigm has a 3-way distinction in matrix declaratives:
-rka— direct (also past tense)-shka— reportative (also past tense)-shi— inferential
Plus the discourse-sensitive enclitic =mi, whose semantic analysis is
contested across Quechuan varieties (Faller's direct-evidential analysis
for Cuzco Quechua does NOT carry over to Saraguro per
@cite{martinez-vera-2026}). The Fragment records only the consensus
typological metadata; the focus-marker-with-discourse-sensitivity
analysis lives in Phenomena/Verum/Studies/MartinezVera2026.lean.
WALS Ch 77 has no entry for qvj; the threeOrMore fallback fires.
Family-style organisation #
This file sits as Fragments/Quechua/SaraguroKichwa/ mirroring the
Fragments/Slavic/{Bulgarian,Czech,Russian,...}/ precedent for
intra-family disambiguation. The Fragments/Quechua/ files at the same
level are currently misnamed (some claim quz Cuzco, one claims qvi
Imbabura) and are queued for a separate per-variety restructure; this
file does not touch them.
Saraguro Kichwa evidentiality: 3-way Andean system in matrix declaratives.
The =mi enclitic is intentionally NOT listed under markers: per
@cite{martinez-vera-2026}, =mi is a focus marker (with verum and
contrastive uses) sensitive to the QUD, not an evidential per se.
The earlier Faller (2002) tradition treating Cuzco =mi as the
direct evidential does not extend to Saraguro Kichwa.
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