Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gabriele Diewald, Elena Smirnova

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456222403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin : New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-93414-7; 9786612934148; 3-11-022397-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
• Collana: Empirical approaches to language typology ; ; 49
• Classificazione: ET 660
• Altri autori (Persone): DiewaldGabriele; SmirnovaElena
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Evidentials (Linguistics); Typology (Linguistics); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This volume contains a selection of contributions to the workshop "Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages", held at the 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics in Bamberg (February 27-29, 2008)."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction. Evidentiality in European languages: the lexicalgrammatical distinction -- Types of verbal evidentiality marking:an overview -- Hearsay in European languages: toward an integrative account of grammatical and lexical marking -- Information source in Spanish and Basque: a parallel corpus study -- Embedded evidentials in German -- Embedding indirective (evidential) utterances in Turkish -- Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their determination on a deictic basis: the case of Romance languages -- Evidentiality, polysemy, and the verbs of perception in English and German -- Evidential markers in French scientific writing: the case of the French verb voir -- An interactional approach to epistemic and evidential adverbs in Spanish conversation -- Revelative evidentiality in European languages: linguistic marking and its anthropological background -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents a selection of contributions to the workshop ; "Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages", held at the 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics in Bamberg (February 27-29, 2008), and additional papers, which have been especially commissioned for this volume. Its main focus lies on providing further empirical evidence about languages that have various - lexical as well as grammatical - evidential expressions. The papers in this volume will offer a cross-linguistic perspective on this topic as they deal with a number of different language families and languages: Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian), Germanic languages (Dutch, German, English, Icelandic), Baltic and Slavic languages, Greek, Basque, and Turkish.