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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.
List of contents
1;Table of contents;6
2;Introduction. Evidentiality in European languages: the lexicalgrammatical distinction;8
3;Types of verbal evidentiality marking:an overview;22
4;Hearsay in European languages: toward an integrative account of grammatical and lexical marking;66
5;Information source in Spanish and Basque: a parallel corpus study;138
6;Embedded evidentials in German;164
7;Embedding indirective (evidential) utterances in Turkish;194
8;Epistemic modality and evidentiality and their determination on a deictic basis: the case of Romance languages;230
9;Evidentiality, polysemy, and the verbs of perception in English and German;256
10;Evidential markers in French scientific writing: the case of the French verb voir;286
11;An interactional approach to epistemic and evidential adverbs in Spanish conversation;316
12;Revelative evidentiality in European languages: linguistic marking and its anthropological background;338
13;Subject index;376
About the author
Gabriele Diewald and Elena Smirnova, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.
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"[...] this volume will certainly be useful to researchers in the field of evidentiality and modality. It covers previous research and points out new, interesting areas of research."
Karolien Janssens in: Linguist List 22.3049
