The Oxford Handbook of EvidentialityAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald Oxford University Press, 2018 M01 18 - 720 pages This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. In some languages, the speaker always has to specify this source - for example whether they saw the event, heard it, inferred it based on visual evidence or common sense, or was told about it by someone else. While not all languages have obligatory marking of this type, every language has ways of referring to information source and associated epistemological meanings. The continuum of epistemological expressions covers a range of devices from the lexical means in familiar European languages and in many languages of Aboriginal Australia to the highly grammaticalized systems in Amazonia or North America. In this handbook, experts from a variety of fields explore topics such as the relationship between evidentials and epistemic modality, contact-induced changes in evidential systems, the acquisition of evidentials, and formal semantic theories of evidentiality. The book also contains detailed case studies of evidentiality in language families across the world, including Algonquian, Korean, Nakh-Dagestanian, Nambikwara, Turkic, Uralic, and Uto-Aztecan. |
Contents
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its expression scope and history | 45 |
Part II Evidentiality in cognition communication and society | 173 |
further issues and approaches | 259 |
Part IV Evidentiality across the world | 313 |
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Author Index | 843 |
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Achkay addressee Aikhenvald 2004a Algonquian analysis aspect assertion Bodic languages Cariban languages Chapter clause clitics cognitive constructions context contrast copula Dargwa dential dialects direct discourse distinction dizque Dubitative egophoric enclitic encode epistemic modality event eviden evidence evidential markers evidential meaning evidential strategies evidential systems example express firsthand Formosan languages function Gitksan grammatical evidentials grammaticalization hearsay indicate indirect evidential inferential evidential inflectional information source interaction interrogative knowledge Korean lexical linguistic Mamaindê marking mirative morphemes nakw Nambikwara narrative narrator non-firsthand non-visual occur Ojibwe OXFORD HANDBOOK Papafragou participle particle past tense perception perfect perfective aspect perspective pragmatic present Quechua question quotative reference reported evidential Saaroa San Roque semantic sensory sentence Sign Language speaker stereotypes story suffix Tariana third person tial Tibetan tion Tsou Tukano Tukanoan Turkic Turkic languages Turkish unmarked Uralic languages utterance verb verbal versus visual evidential volume Wayana Witoto Witotoan languages