The Semantics of Evidentials |
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Author:
| Murray, Sarah E. |
Series title: | Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-968157-0 |
Publication Date: | May 2017 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $125.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.