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Zusatztext This outstanding collection of studies probes into one of the most critical areas of human cognition: knowledge. The systematic survey of 12 languages whose grammatical system includes epistemological devices reveals both fascinating differences and striking similarities in how different languages construe the nature of knowledge and its sources. Informationen zum Autor Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages. Her other major publications, with OUP, include Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000), Language Contact in Amazonia(2002), Evidentiality (2004), The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, (2008), Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012), and The Art of Grammar (forthcoming).R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (Oxford University Press, 2004;, paperback 2011) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the author of the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (Oxford University Press, 2010-12) and of an academic autobiography I am a linguist (Brill, 2011). Klappentext This book explores the expression of information source, inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs across a wide range of languages in different cultural settings. Like others in the series it will interest both linguists and linguistically-minded anthropologists. Zusammenfassung This book explores the expression of information source, inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs across a wide range of languages in different cultural settings. Like others in the series it will interest both linguists and linguistically-minded anthropologists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: The grammar of knowledge: a cross-linguistic view of evidentials and the expression of information source 2: Diana Forker: The grammar of knowledge in Hinuq 3: Teija Greed: Expression of knowledge in Tatar 4: Chia-jung Pan: The grammar of knowledge in Saaroa 5: Gwendolyn Hyslop: The grammar of knowledge in Kurtöp: evidentiality, mirativity, and expectation of knowledge 6: Sihong Zhang: Evidentiality in Ersu 7: Elena Skribnik and Olga Seesing: Evidentiality in Kalmyk 8: R. M. W. Dixon: The non-visible marker in Dyirbal 9: Anne Storch and Jules Jacques Coly: The grammar of knowledge in Maaka (Western Chadic, Nigeria) 10: Elena Mihas: Expression of information-source meanings in Ashéninca Perené 11: Simon E. Overall: Nominalization, knowledge, and information source in Aguarana 12: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: The grammar of knowledge in Tima 13: Borut Telban: Saying, seeing, and knowing among the Karawari of Papua New Guinea ...
