Details

Subjects:

Evidentials (Linguistics).
Typology (Linguistics).

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

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.

Contributor:

Diewald, Gabriele.
Smirnova, Elena.

ISBN:

1-282-93414-7
9786612934148
3-11-022397-X

OCLC:

707068879

Publisher Number:

10.1515/9783110223972 doi