04032nam 2200781 a 450 991081396680332120240516145955.01-283-62761-297866139400633-11-021903-410.1515/9783110219036(CKB)2480000000005084(EBL)893683(OCoLC)811964404(SSID)ssj0000750988(PQKBManifestationID)12242234(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000750988(PQKBWorkID)10750519(PQKB)11497462(MiAaPQ)EBC893683(DE-B1597)36677(OCoLC)961581046(OCoLC)979632626(OCoLC)984521113(OCoLC)987921862(OCoLC)992504272(DE-B1597)9783110219036(Au-PeEL)EBL893683(CaPaEBR)ebr10606409(CaONFJC)MIL394006(EXLCZ)99248000000000508420120312d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrEpistemic meaning a crosslinguistic and functional-cognitive study /by Kasper Boye1st ed.Berlin ;Boston De Gruyter Mouton20121 online resource (392 p.)Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ;43Empirical approaches to language typology,0933-761X ;43Description based upon print version of record.3-11-020438-X Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Epistemic systems -- 3. A semantic map of epistemic expressions -- 4. Epistemic meaning and scope -- 5. A functional-cognitive analysis of epistemic meaning and the proposition -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Language index -- Subject indexThis book is intended to contribute to the clarification of the linguistic research area covered by the terms modal, evidential and epistemic. It sets out to demonstrate that on cross-linguistic grounds a hitherto overlooked epistemic meaning domain must be given due recognition in linguistic theory, on a par with domains such as time and number. The relevant domain is coherent, but at the same time complex in that it consists of two subdomains: one which comprises degree-of-certainty meanings, and one which comprises information-source meanings. The book offers three arguments for giving recognition to such a meaning domain. The first argument concerns the clustering of linguistic expressions with epistemic meaning into morphosyntactically delimited systems of elements. The second argument has to do with the variation pertaining to the coding of epistemic meanings, as highlighted in a semantic map of epistemic expressions. The third argument turns upon the scope properties of epistemic meanings and the morphosyntactic reflections of these properties. Finally, the book proposes a unified cognitive analysis of epistemic meaning in terms of which it attempts to account for the properties of the epistemic meaning domain as well as of individual epistemic meanings. Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]English languageModalityEnglish languageSemanticsLinguistic universalsEvidentiality.Language Typology.Modality.English languageModality.English languageSemantics.Linguistic universals.401/.43ER 630rvkBoye Kasper1972-1629472MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813966803321Epistemic meaning3967223UNINA