<p><span>Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evi
Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues
✍ Scribed by Marta Carretero, Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Elena Domínguez Romero, and Mª Victoria Martín de la Rosa
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 416
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Cover
Series Information
Copyright Information
Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Section A Evidentiality: Conceptual Issues
On Inferential Evidentiality: Is “Evidential” Inference Abductive? (Patrick Dendale, Johanna Miecznikowski)
Further Motivating the Challengeability Criterion for Evidentiality (Tabea Reiner)
Section B Evidentiality and Modality: Descriptive Issues and Corpus-based Studies
Evidential Strategies and Hierarchies in Ladakhi: the Case of Sensory Perceptions (Nicolas Tournadre)
Inferential must from a Contrastive Dutch-German Perspective: Semantics and Constructional Aspects (Tanja Mortelmans)
Conjectural Future in French and in Spanish: An L2 Acquisition Perspective (Aoife Ahern, José Amenós-Pons, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes)
Romance Future: between Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality (Cecilia Mihaela Popescu, Oana Adriana DuȚă)
Speaker Commitment in Reportative and Folklore Evidentiality: The Case of Spanish ‘o eso dicen’ (Dorota Kotwica)
Toward an (Exclusively) Inferential Marker: The Modal deure (‘mustʼ) in Contemporary Catalan (Andreu Sentí)
Evidentiality and the Latvian Oblique Forms (Andra Kalnača, Ilze Lokmane)
Section C Evidentiality and Modality in Discourses and Genres
Evidential Expressions in Spanish Accounts of Religious Miracles of the 17th Century (Natalia Mora-López)
The Use of the English Modal Verbs in Linguistic and Philosophical Research Articles (Liisa Vilkki)
Notes on Contributors
Series Index
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