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1 online resource (xxiii, 452 pages) : 1 map. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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[Oxford linguistics]
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Oxford linguistics.
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Series statement on jacket. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-427) and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Evidentials (Linguistics)
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Evidentials (Linguistics) |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I͡U (Aleksandra I͡Urʹevna). Evidentiality. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2004 0199263884 9780199263882 (DLC) 2005295896 (OCoLC)56645191 |
| ISBN |
9781435610019 (electronic book) |
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1435610016 (electronic book) |
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9780199263882 (acid-free paper) |
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0199263884 (acid-free paper) |
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9780191532542 (electronic book) |
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0191532541 (electronic book) |
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0199263884 (acid-free paper) |
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