Epistemic Meaning : : A Crosslinguistic and Functional-Cognitive Study / / Kasper Boye.
This 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ,
43 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (373 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 index