Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages

The book offers the first collection of papers which explicitly deal with the linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages. The contributions summarize relevant previous research and develop new perspectives on the view of evidentiality. The scope of the papers ranges from broad ove...

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Otros Autores: Diewald, Gabriele (-), Smirnova, Elena
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton c2010.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Empirical approaches to language typology ; 49.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31251298*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover13;
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction. Evidentiality in European languages: the lexicalgrammatical distinction13;
  • Types of verbal evidentiality marking:an overview
  • Hearsay in European languages: toward an integrative account of grammatical and lexical marking13;
  • Information source in Spanish and Basque: a parallel corpus study13;
  • Embedded evidentials in German
  • Embedding indirective (evidential) utterances in Turkish13;
  • Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their determination on a deictic basis: the case of Romance languages13;
  • Evidentiality, polysemy, and the verbs of perception in English and German13;
  • Evidential markers in French scientific writing: the case of the French verb voir13;
  • An interactional approach to epistemic and evidential adverbs in Spanish conversation13;
  • Revelative evidentiality in European languages: linguistic marking and its anthropological background13;
  • Backmatter13.