Publications by authors named "Jay Garfield"
Article Synopsis
- The paper explores philosophical views on self and death, specifically contrasting beliefs among Hindus, Westerners, and three Buddhist groups.
- Monastic Tibetans exhibited a strong denial of self continuity yet paradoxically demonstrated a heightened fear of death and lower generosity compared to other groups.
- Surprisingly, instead of being less afraid of death due to their views on self, monastic Tibetans showed greater anxiety about death and were less willing to sacrifice their own life for others.
Evidentials in Tibetan: acquisition, semantics, and cognitive development.
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev
January 2010
We describe the nature of the evidential system in Tibetan and consider the challenges that any evidential system presents to language acquisition. We present data from Tibetan-speaking children that shed light on their understanding of the syntactic and semantic properties of evidentials, and their competence in the point-of-view shift required for the use of evidentials in questions. We then examine connections between the mastery of indirect evidentials and children's inferential competence.
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