<p>The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and
Evidentials and Modals
✍ Scribed by Chungmin Lee; Jinho Park
- Publisher
- Brill
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 560
- Series
- Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 39
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
Evidentials and Modals offers an in-depth account of the meaning of grammatical elements related to evidentiality and modality, focusing on both theoretical and typological perspectives, ranging from Korean, Japanese, American Indian, Turkish and African languages.
✦ Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Perspectives and Issues (Lee and McClure)
Part 1. Theoretical and Typological Perspectives on Evidentiality
Chapter 1. Evidentiality and Information Source (Aikhenvald)
Chapter 2. A Possible Worlds Semantics for Cuzco Quechua Evidentials (Faller)
Chapter 3. A Matter of Taste (Keshet)
Chapter 4. Evidence Type, Evidence Location, Evidence Strength (Matthewson)
Chapter 5. Testimony, Trust, and Evidentials (McCready)
Chapter 6. A Hamblin Semantics for Evidentials and Evidential Questions (Murray)
Part 2. Issues on Evidentiality from Korean
Chapter 7. Korean Evidentials and Epistemic Modals (Chung)
Chapter 8. Evidential Markers as Interactional Resources in Korean Conversation (Kim)
Chapter 9. The Nature of Evidentiality and Epistemic Modals: The Causal Event Structure (Kwon)
Chapter 10. Evidentials: Nature, Interactions and Shiftability (Lee)
Chapter 11. The Korean Pre-final Ending -te-: A Historical Investigation (Lee)
Chapter 12. A Modal Account of ‘First Person’ Constraints on Evidential Sentences (Lee)
Chapter 13. What Kind of (Doxastic) Alternatives Does Korean Evidential -te- Introduce (If It Does)? (Lim)
Chapter 14. Evidential and/or Mirative Components of Some Verbal Endings and Periphrastic Constructions in Korean (Park)
Chapter 15. Evidentiality in Korean (Song)
Part 3. Evidentiality and Modality in Other Languages
Chapter 16. Processing Evidentiality in Bilingualism and Aphasia: An Overview of Some Recent Studies on Turkish (Arslan)
Chapter 17. Evidentiality in African Languages (Botne)
Chapter 18. Breaking the Illusion of Modality: Reclassifying Japanese darou (Nagano and McClure)
Chapter 19. Epistemic Modality in Southeastern Tepehuan (Willett)
Chapter 20. Modal Particles Yo and Ne in Japanese (Yoshimoto)
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