Epistemic Modalities and Evidentiality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective / / ed. by Zlatka Guentchéva.

This volume explores phenomena which come under the heading of epistemic modalities and evidentiality in more or less well-known languages (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Hungarian, Tibetan, Lakandon and Yucatec Maya, Arwak-Chibchan Kogi and Ika). It reveals cross-linguistic variations in the stru...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 59
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 420 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Editorial Preface --
List of Contributors --
Part I: Germanic languages --
Epistemic modality, Danish modal verbs and the tripartition of utterances --
Epistemic evaluation in factual contexts in English --
SHOULD in Conditional Clauses: When Epistemicity Meets Appreciative Modality --
Part II: Romance languages --
Epistemic modality and evidentiality in Romance: the Reportive Conditional --
Epistemic modality and perfect morphology in Spanish and French --
Anchoring evidential, epistemic and beyond in discourse: alào, vantér and vér in Noirmoutier island (Poitevin-Saintongeais) --
A prosody account of (inter)subjective modal adverbs in Spanish --
French expressions of personal opinion: je crois / pense / trouve / estime / considère que p --
Mirative extensions in Romance: evidential or epistemic? --
The Italian epistemic future and Russian epistemic markers as linguistic manifestations of conjectural conclusion: a comparative analysis --
Epistemic modality, evidentiality, quotativity and echoic use --
Evidentiality, epistemic modality and negation in Lithuanian: revisited --
Part IV: Non Indo-European languages --
Two kinds of epistemic modality in Hungarian --
Epistemic modalities in spoken Tibetan --
Intersubjectification revisited: a cross-categorical perspective --
Inference crisscross: Disentangling evidence, stance and (inter)subjectivity in Yucatec Maya --
Part V: Theoretical perspectives --
Epistemic modality and evidentiality from an enunciative perspective --
About Contributors --
Author Index --
Subject Index --
Language Index
Summary:This volume explores phenomena which come under the heading of epistemic modalities and evidentiality in more or less well-known languages (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Hungarian, Tibetan, Lakandon and Yucatec Maya, Arwak-Chibchan Kogi and Ika). It reveals cross-linguistic variations in the structuring of these vast fields of enquiry and clearly demonstrates the relevance and interplay of multiple factors involved in the analysis of these two conceptual domains. Although the contributions present diverging descriptive traditions, they are nonetheless within the broad domain of functional-typological linguistics and give access to distinct yet comparable approaches. They all converge around a number of key issues: modal verbs; the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality; the relationship of modal notions with some tense and aspect notions; the notions of (inter)subjectivity, commitment and (dis)engagement; the prosodic variation of modal adverbs, the diachronic connections between negation and evidential markers, the connection with mirativity. The volume is of interest to linguists and advanced graduate students working in general and theoretical linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, cognition, and typology.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110572261
9783110762488
9783110719550
9783110742978
9783110604252
9783110603255
9783110604078
9783110603170
ISSN:0933-761X ;
DOI:10.1515/9783110572261
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Zlatka Guentchéva.