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Evidentiality in interaction /

This chapter describes two quotation strategies employed by speakers of Nanti, one involving grammaticalized quotatives and another involving complement-taking verbs of saying, and examines the consequences of the pragmatic differences between these strategies for two key questions in the study of e...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nuckolls, Janis B. (Editor ), Michael, Lev (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Colección:Benjamins current topics ; v. 63.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This chapter describes two quotation strategies employed by speakers of Nanti, one involving grammaticalized quotatives and another involving complement-taking verbs of saying, and examines the consequences of the pragmatic differences between these strategies for two key questions in the study of evidentiality: first, the importance of degree of grammaticalization in delimiting 'evidentials'; and second, the importance of the analytical distinction between epistemic modal and 'source of information' evidential meanings. Nanti use of the two quotation strategies is specifically analyzed in the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027270016
9027270015
1306850681
9781306850681
ISSN:1874-0081 ;