Semantics of evidentials

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This book provides a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source information on which a statement is based. The new proposal is based on extensive data from Cheyenne, English, and a variety of other languages.

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Full title :Semantics of evidentials / Sarah E. Murray.

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Publication Date:2017.
Edition:First edition

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780191760952, 0191760951, 9780191503795, 0191503797
oclc:ocn951754384
LC Classification:P325.5.E96
Dewey Decimal:401.43

Cover; The Semantics of Evidentials; Copyright; Contents; General preface; Preface; List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Cheyenne glosses; Cheyenne orthography; Language codes; 1: Introduction; 2: A semantic classification of evidentials; 2.1 Challengeability and commitment; 2.1.1 Direct and indirect challengeability; 2.1.2 Commitment to scope; 2.1.3 Commitment to evidence; 2.1.4 Summary; 2.2 Embedding and projection; 2.2.1 Negation; 2.2.2 Tense and modality; 2.2.3 Conditionals; 2.2.4 Embedding verbs; 2.2.5 Summary; 2.3 Interaction with questions; 2.3.1 Polar interrogatives.

2.3.2 Content interrogatives2.3.3 Summary; 2.4 Summary and theoretical implications; 3: Evidentials and varieties of update; 3.1 A semantics for sentential mood: sentences without evidentials; 3.2 Declarative sentences with evidentials; 3.2.1 The direct evidential; 3.2.2 The reportative evidential; 3.2.3 The inferential evidential; 3.2.4 Conjunctions as sequential update; 3.3 Interrogative sentences with evidentials; 3.3.1 Polar interrogatives with evidentials; 3.3.2 Content interrogatives with evidentials; 3.4 Accounting for crosslinguistic patterns; 3.4.1 Challengeability and commitment.
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