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Evidentiality /
Evidentiality is one of the most fascinating categories of human languages. 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Oxford linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Evidentiality is one of the most fascinating categories of human languages. 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. This is a very powerful device for human communication. Many people think that it would be a good thing if our politicians had to talk in this way. The book investigates a variety of other grammatical categories related to evidentiality, such as aspect and person. |
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| Notas: | Series statement on jacket. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 452 pages) : 1 map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-427) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781435610019 1435610016 9780199263882 0199263884 9780191532542 0191532541 1280904321 9781280904325 1282328182 9781282328181 9786610904327 6610904324 |