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Record Nr.

UNINA9910645967503321

Titolo

Evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement / Henrik Bergqvist, Seppo Kittilä

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Language Science Press, 2020

[s.l.] : , : Language Science Press, , 2020

ISBN

9783961102693

3961102694

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Studies in Diversity Linguistics

Soggetti

Biography & Autobiography

Biographies.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The expression of knowledge in language (i.e. epistemicity) consists of a number of distinct notions and proposed categories that are only partly related to a well explored forms like epistemic modals. The aim of the volume is therefore to contribute to the ongoing exploration of epistemic marking systems in lesser-documented languages from the Americas, Papua New Guinea, and Central Asia from the perspective of language description and cross-linguistic comparison. As the title of the volume suggests, part of this exploration consists of situating already established notions (such as evidentiality) with the diversity of systems found in individual languages. Epistemic forms that feature in the present volume include ones that signal how speakers claim knowledge based on perceptual-cognitive access (evidentials); the speaker's involvement as a basis for claiming epistemic authority (egophorics); the distribution of knowledge between the speech-participants where the speaker signals assumptions about the addressee's knowledge of an event as either shared, or non-shared with the speaker (engagement marking).