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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Conventions; List of Tables; List of Diagrams; List of Schemes; 1 Preliminaries and key concepts; 2 Evidentials worldwide; 3 How to mark information source; 4 Evidential extensions of non-evidential categories; 5 Evidentials and their meanings; 6 Evidentiality and mirativity; 7 Whose evidence is that? Evidentials and person; 8 Evidentials and other grammatical categories; 9 Evidentials: where do they come from?; 10 How to choose the correct evidential: evidentiality in discourse and in lexicon.
- 11 What are evidentials good for? Evidentiality, cognition, and cultural knowledge12 What can we conclude? Summary and prospects; Fieldworker's guide. How to gather materials on evidentiality systems; Glossary of terms; References; Index of languages; Index of authors; Subject index.