Using data from Nyala East (Luhia, Bantu), I argue that both clauses and nouns are "perspectival domains." This study primarily focuses on novel cases of what I call epistemic marking on nouns, analyzed here as deriving from a perspectival operator in the DP left periphery, by analogy to well-known studies of similar effects in the clausal domain (Koopman and Sportiche 1989; Speas and Tenny 2003). This study therefore confirms the noted parallels between clauses and nouns (Rosenbaum 1967 et seq.), and introduces a new line of analogy based on transparent morphological evidence. I further situate these findings within the broader function of perspective in Nyala East, showing the three distinct morphological reflexes of perspectival information-found on nouns, clauses, and verbs-reduce to only two distinct perspectival loci in the nominal and clausal domains, again highlighting the commonalities shared across nouns and clauses, to the exclusion of the verbal domain.
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