Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages / edited by Gabriele Diewald, Elena Smirnova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diewald, Gabriele.

Smirnova, Elena.

Series:

Empirical approaches to language typology ; 49.

Empirical approaches to language typology ; 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evidentials (Linguistics).

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents a selection of contributions to the workshop "Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages", held at the 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics in Bamberg (February 27-29, 2008), and additional papers, which have been especially commissioned for this volume. Its main focus lies on providing further empirical evidence about languages that have various - lexical as well as grammatical - evidential expressions. The papers in this volume will offer a cross-linguistic perspective on this topic as they deal with a number of different language families and languages: Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian), Germanic languages (Dutch, German, English, Icelandic), Baltic and Slavic languages, Greek, Basque, and Turkish.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Introduction. Evidentiality in European languages: the lexicalgrammatical distinction

Types of verbal evidentiality marking:an overview

Hearsay in European languages: toward an integrative account of grammatical and lexical marking

Information source in Spanish and Basque: a parallel corpus study

Embedded evidentials in German

Embedding indirective (evidential) utterances in Turkish

Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their determination on a deictic basis: the case of Romance languages

Evidentiality, polysemy, and the verbs of perception in English and German

Evidential markers in French scientific writing: the case of the French verb voir

An interactional approach to epistemic and evidential adverbs in Spanish conversation

Revelative evidentiality in European languages: linguistic marking and its anthropological background

Backmatter

Notes:

"This volume contains a selection of contributions to the workshop "Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages", held at the 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics in Bamberg (February 27-29, 2008)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612934148

9781282934146

1282934147

9783110223972

311022397X

OCLC:

707068879