Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: evidentiality
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-07-27
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0199204330
ISBN-13: 9780199204335

In a number of languages, scattered across the world, every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based--whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from somebody else. Of interest to any grammarian, the book discusses evidentiality, and the cognitive and sociolinguistic consequences of evidentiality in a language.

Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: evidentiality
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2005-01-13
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 0199263884
ISBN-13: 9780199263882

In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from someone else. This grammatical reference to information source is called ’evidentiality’, and is one of the least described grammatical categories. Evidentiality systems differ in how complex they are: some distinguish just two terms (eyewitness and noneyewitness, or reported and everything else), while others have six or even more terms. Evidentiality is a category

Author: Ilana Mushi
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: pragmatics, new, series, retelling, narrative, epistemological, stance, evidentiality
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1588110338
ISBN-13: 9781588110336

Authors:Cornillie, Bert,
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: approach, functional, applications, congnitive, linguistics, cognitive, auxiliaries, epistemic, modality, spanish, semi, evidentiality
Number of Pages: 313
Published: 2007-12-19
List price: $147.00
ISBN-10: 311018611X
ISBN-13: 9783110186116

This volume presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Spanish evidential semi-auxiliaries parecer and resultar, the modal constructions with amenazar and prometer, and the modal auxiliaries poder, deber and tener que. These verbs have never been considered together in a global approach that transcends the classical ""verbal periphrases"" model. The book proposes a cognitive-functional account of evidentiality and modality in Spanish with special attention to subjectivity and grounding. The theoretical reflection relies on empirical evidence of two sorts: synchronic and diachronic