Evidentiality / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡. (Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna)

Series:

Oxford linguistics

[Oxford linguistics]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evidentials (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xxiii, 452 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Series from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-427) and indexes.

ISBN:

0199263884

OCLC:

56645191