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Book SynopsisThis book offers an in-depth account of the meaning of grammatical elements representing evidentiality in connection to modality, focusing on theoretical/formal perspectives by eminent pioneers in the field and on recently discovered phenomena in Korean evidential markers by native scholars in particular. Evidentiality became a hot topic in semantics and pragmatics, trying to see what kind of evidential justification is provided by evidentials to support or be related to the ‘at-issue’ prejacent propositions. This book aims to provide a deeper understanding of such evidentiality in discourse contexts in a broad range of languages such as American Indian, Korean and Japanese, Turkish and African languages over the world. In addition, an introduction to the concept of evidentiality and theoretical perspectives and recent issues is also provided.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction: Perspectives and Issues Chungmin Lee and William McClure Part 1 Theoretical and Typological Perspectives on Evidentiality 1 Evidentiality and Information Source Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 2 A Possible Worlds Semantics for Cuzco Quechua Evidentials Martina T. Faller 3 A Matter of Taste Ezra Keshet 4 Evidence Type, Evidence Location, Evidence Strength Lisa Matthewson 5 Testimony, Trust, and Evidentials Elin McCready 6 A Hamblin Semantics for Evidentials and Evidential Questions Sarah E. Murray Part 2 Issues on Evidentiality from Korean 7 Korean Evidentials and Epistemic Modals Kyung-Sook Chung 8 Evidential Markers as Interactional Resources in Korean Conversation Mary Shin Kim 9 The Nature of Evidentiality and Epistemic Modals: The Causal Event Structure Iksoo Kwon 10 Evidentials: Nature, Interactions and Shiftability Chungmin Lee 11 The Korean Pre-final Ending -te: A Historical Investigation Ji-Young Lee 12 A Modal Account of ‘First Person’ Constraints on Evidential Sentences Jungmee Lee 13 What Kind of (Doxastic) Alternatives Does the Korean Evidential -te Introduce (If It Does)? Dongsik Lim 14 Evidential and/or Mirative Components of Some Verb Endings and Periphrastic Constructions in Korean Jinho Park 15 Evidentiality in Korean Jaemog Song Part 3 Evidentiality and Modality in Other Languages 16 Processing Evidentiality in Bilingualism and Aphasia: An Overview of Some Recent Studies on Turkish Seçkin Arslan 17 Evidentials in African Languages Robert Botne 18 Breaking the Illusion of Modality: Reclassifying Japanese darou Marisa Nagano and William McClure 19 Epistemic Modality in Southeastern Tepehuan Thomas Willett 20 Modal Particles yo/ne in Japanese Kei Yoshimoto Index
